While You Are Posing for a Picture, the Camera's Flash

question 175

Multiple Choice

While you are posing for a picture, the camera's flash goes off and you feel a momentary sense of pain in your eyes. This is most likely a result of ____.

• A) the sudden breakdown of large amounts of photopigments
• B) a relatively common example of synesthesia in which light is experienced as touch
• C) a large increase in the speed of the action potentials being fired
• D) rods, cones, horizontal, bipolar, amacrine, and ganglion cells firing all at the same time

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Definitions:

Observational Learning

A learning process that occurs through observing and imitating others' behavior.

Classical Conditioning

A learning procedure distinguished by the repetitive association of two stimuli, causing the initial stimulus to eventually provoke a response initially induced by the subsequent stimulus.

Submerged Mental Energy

The part of an individual's mental capacity that lies beneath the conscious awareness, often guiding actions or thoughts without direct acknowledgment.

Repressed Impulses

Desires or inclinations that are suppressed and remain unexpressed due to their potentially disruptive or unacceptable nature to the conscious mind.