What Might Cause People to Judge That Something They See

question 107

Multiple Choice

What might cause people to judge that something they see in the sky is a gigantic UFO traveling at an incredible velocity?

• A) They misjudged the object's distance.
• B) Light from the object fell on the all-rod area of the retina.
• C) Visual information failed to cross their corpus callosum.
• D) Their perceptions were guided by the retinex principle.

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Definitions:

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