While at the Bookstore,you Listen in on an Author Speaking

question 18

Multiple Choice

While at the bookstore,you listen in on an author speaking to a crowd of fans about her research and experience working with color in the clothing industry.She talks about the biology behind color,including how our eyes have thousands of receptors that are each sensitive to a different range of light wavelengths.As she continues,you realize she is explaining the ____ theory of color vision.

• A) trichromatic
• B) synesthetic
• C) gate-control
• D) opponent-process

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Definitions:

Rational Decisions

Decisions that are made based on logical reasoning from available information, aiming to maximize the outcome or benefit.

Confirmation Bias

The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.

Dictator Game

A mutually anonymous behavioral economics game in which one person (“the dictator”) unilaterally determines how to split an amount of money with the second player.

Ultimatum Game

A behavioral economics game in which a mutually anonymous pair of players interact to determine how an amount of money is to be split. The first player suggests a division. The second player either accepts that proposal (in which case the split is made accordingly) or rejects it (in which case neither player gets anything).