While Engaged in a Battle During the War in the Persian

question 406

Multiple Choice

While engaged in a battle during the war in the Persian Gulf, crewmen operating the radar systems on the Vincennes mistakenly interpreted a commercial airliner as a threatening military aircraft and shot it down, tragically killing all the passengers aboard. This incident was discussed as an example of

• A)stress-induced analgesia
• B)a perceptual schema
• C)a perceptual constancy
• D)a perceptual set

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Definitions:

Feature Detectors

Neurons in the brain that identify specific characteristics of a stimulus, such as angles or movement.

Visual Cortex

The part of the cerebral cortex responsible for processing visual information, located in the back of the brain.

Hubel and Wiesel

Neurophysiologists known for their studies of the visual cortex, which showed how certain brain cells respond to edges, lines, and movements, leading to the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Feature Detector

Neurons in the brain that are responsible for detecting specific features of the environment, such as lines, edges, or movement.