If You Look at Your Finger and Close One Eye

question 25

Multiple Choice

If you look at your finger and close one eye at a time, your finger seems to jump back and forth because the different positions of stimuli on your retinas.If you look at a distant object, however, there is less jumping of the image because

• A) there is less disparity in the positions of the image on the two retinas.
• B) binocular cells adjust for the distance of the object.
• C) the time it takes to perceive the distant object reduces the disparity between the position of the image on the two retinas.
• D) binocular vision is useful only for near objects.
• E) more binocular cells are stimulated.

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