Consider the Experiment in Which You Stared at a Green

question 205

Multiple Choice

Consider the experiment in which you stared at a green, black, and yellow flag for 60 seconds, then looked at a blank sheet of paper and saw the image of the U.S. flag. How does the author explain this phenomenon?

• A) It is a hallucination
• B) It is a delusion
• C) The trichromatic theory says colors have opposites that activate with exposure
• D) The neural system for each color became fatigued so responded with the respective opposing color

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