When a kitten is exposed to an environment of just horizontal lines, the kitten _____.
A) would pay attention only to vertical lines
B) would pay attention only to horizontal lines
C) would have cortical cells that only respond to vertical lines
D) would have cortical cells that respond to horizontal lines, but none to vertical lines
Selective rearing refers to _____.
A) raising an organism in an environment that only contains certain types of stimuli
B) genetically manipulating the organism prenatally
C) genetically manipulating the organism in the first month after birth
D) presenting an array of stimuli to the organism in the first month after birth
_____ refers to the fact that the response properties of neurons can be shaped by an animal's or person's perceptual experience.
A) Selective adaptation
B) Neural plasticity
C) Sensory integration
D) Perceptual analysis
When we view a stimulus with a specific property, neurons tuned to that property fire and will eventually become fatigued, an effect called _____ adaptation.
A) selective
B) refractory
C) depletion
D) massed
The results of experiments of selective adaptation to gratings with specific orientations can be related to the _____ of _____ cells.
A) lateral inhibition; simple cortical
B) lateral inhibition; end-stopped
C) tuning curves; amacrine
D) tuning curves; simple cortical
To measure _____, the experimenter decreases the intensity difference between the light bars and the dark bars until an observer can just barely detect the difference between the dark bars and the light bars.
A) Mach bands
B) contrast threshold
C) phase continuity
D) brightness constancy
The difference in intensity between light bars and dark bars is called
A) orientation
B) wave form
C) phase
D) contrast
A stimulus that contains alternating black and white bars is called a _____.
A) grating
B) grid
C) Boolean array
D) Moire pattern
The different types of cortical cells that respond to specific stimuli are also known as _____.
A) inhibitory cells
B) feature detectors
C) direct circuits
D) signal detectors
As we travel farther from the retina, neurons fire to _____.
A) more complex stimuli
B) less complex stimuli
C) more intense stimuli
D) less intense stimuli
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