Table 22-2 Three Longtime Friends-Allen, Brian, and Cody-Are Deciding How They Will

question 208

Multiple Choice

Table 22-2
Three longtime friends-Allen, Brian, and Cody-are deciding how they will spend their Sunday afternoon. They all agree that they should do one of three things: go to a movie, play golf, or go to a baseball game. They also agree that they will have two pairwise votes to determine how to spend their afternoon, with the majority determining the outcome on each vote. The first, second, and third choices for each person are as indicated in the table below.
-Refer to Table 22-2. If (1) the first vote pits "baseball game" against "golf," and (2) the second vote pits "movie" against the winner of the first vote, then

• A)"Baseball game" wins the first vote and "baseball game" wins the second vote, so they go to a baseball game.
• B)"Baseball game" wins the first vote and "movie" wins the second vote, so they go to a movie.
• C)"golf" wins the first vote and "golf" wins the second vote, so they play golf.
• D)"golf" wins the first vote and "movie" wins the second vote, so they go to a movie.

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Definitions:

Feature Detectors

Neurons in the brain that identify specific features of a stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement.

Bipolar Cells

Neurons in the retina that transmit signals from the photoreceptors to the ganglion cells.

Blindsight

A phenomenon in which people who are perceptually blind in certain areas of their visual field demonstrate some response to visual stimuli without consciously perceiving them.

Gestalt

An organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.