In Their Experiments on the Brain and Perceptual Features, Blakemore

question 214

Multiple Choice

In their experiments on the brain and perceptual features, Blakemore, Cooper, Grobstein, and Chow found that

• A)the kittens raised in the vertically-striped rooms ran into chair legs in the normal environment.
• B)the kittens raised in the horizontally-striped rooms had difficulty jumping onto a chair in the normal environment.
• C)there was an actual decrease in brain cells tuned to the missing features.
• D)all of these findings were true.

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