Which of the Following Would Be an Example of the Influence

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following would be an example of the influence of top-down processing?

• A)Your perceptual system 'filling in' the missing information from the part of the visual field hidden by the blind spot
• B)Seeing a normal Canadian flag after staring at a flag where the maple leaf and bars are green and the background is black for about a minute
• C)Not being able to identify the dotted figures in a test of colour-deficiency
• D)Gradually being more sensitive to light after being in the dark for a period of time

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Definitions:

Expected Value

The anticipated value of a variable in a probability distribution; it represents the mean of the distribution.

Pooled Variance Estimate

An estimate of variance that combines the variances from two or more samples, assuming that the variances from the different populations are the same.

Population Variances

refer to the measure of the dispersion of data points in a population.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points, quantifying the distance of each point from the mean.