Mary's Physician Is Trying to Test Her Visual Perception

question 27

Multiple Choice

Mary's physician is trying to test her visual perception.She shows six-month old Mary a picture of a boat until Mary no longer pays any attention to it.Then she shows Mary a picture of a house and immediately Mary begins to stare at the picture in entranced curiosity.Mary's physician was using the _______________ to test her visual perception.

• A)habituation technique
• B)longitudinal technique
• C)attention-span technique
• D)novelty technique

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Genetic Code

Complete set of sixty-four mRNA codons.

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Triplets of nucleotides in messenger RNA that specify the addition of a specific amino acid or the termination of translation.

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Semifluid substance enclosed by a cell’s plasma membrane.

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Singular bacterium. The most diverse and well-known group of prokaryotes.