Giovanni Was Watching the Night Sky on a Clear Evening

question 107

Multiple Choice

Giovanni was watching the night sky on a clear evening in November.He noticed that sometimes when he looked directly overhead he could detect a very faint star.A few minutes later it seemed that the star had disappeared,and then it "appeared" again.In this case,it is very likely that the light from the star was

• A) just below Giovanni's level for perceptual invariance.
• B) producing action potentials that were too weak to reach the terminal buttons.
• C) just at Giovanni's absolute threshold for light.
• D) producing inhibitory synapses rather than excitatory synapses.

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Internal Control Procedures

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