Most People Are Not Aware of Their Blind Spot Because

question 174

Multiple Choice

Most people are not aware of their blind spot because the area that is lost is filled in by the:

• A) continuous back and forth movement of the eyes
• B) association areas in the brain that give meaning to sensations
• C) optic nerve
• D) optic chiasm

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A way of changing the force of a behavior using rewards or penalties as influencing factors.

Shaping

A method in behavioral psychology where reinforces guide an organism's behavior towards a desired goal through successive approximations.

Successive Approximations

A behavioral training process that rewards actions that progressively more closely resemble the desired behavior.

Generalization

The tendency to respond in the same way to different but similar stimuli.