If You Focus on Your Fingertip and Bring It Toward

question 302

Multiple Choice

If you focus on your fingertip and bring it toward your eyes until they almost cross, you will actually feel the muscles that control eye movement working harder as your fingertip gets closer through a process known as

• A)habituation.
• B)linear perspective.
• C)convergence.
• D)overlap.

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