While Visiting the Art Museum,Laura Stared at a Black and White

question 96

Multiple Choice

While visiting the art museum,Laura stared at a black and white photograph in a red frame for over a minute.When she looked away from the photograph she saw an afterimage of a rectangle.Consistent with the opponent process theory the image she saw was

• A) green.
• B) red.
• C) blue.
• D) yellow.

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Definitions:

Prototype Matching

A cognitive process where new stimuli are identified and categorized based on their resemblance to a known prototype or standard example.

Idealized Representations

Simplified or perfected models or images of objects, people, or concepts that might not exist in reality but are created for the sake of argument, theory, or research.

Abstract Dot Patterns

Visual stimuli made up of dots arranged in patterns that do not represent specific objects, often used in psychological experiments to study perception or memory.

David Marr

An English neuroscientist and psychologist renowned for his contributions to the field of vision and computational neuroscience.