What Is True of Blindsight

question 86

Multiple Choice

What is true of blindsight?

• A) It is seen in patients with multiple personalities, one of which has sight, the other being blind.
• B) It refers to the development of acute sensitivity to touch in many blind people, such that they are actually conscious of seeing things when they touch them.
• C) It describes dissociation between perception and the conscious experience of perception.
• D) It describes people who think that they can see, but when tested they fail badly at most visual tasks.

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Definitions:

Affirming Consequent

A logical fallacy where one assumes that because the consequent is true, the antecedent must also be true; it's a flawed argument in conditional reasoning.

Antecedent

The conditional clause that represents the if-part in a conditional statement, where its truth logically necessitates the truth of the consequent.

Modus Ponens

A logical form of argument where, from two premises, one asserts a condition and the other affirms that condition, leading to a conclusion.

Hypothetical

Pertaining to a proposition or statement whose truth depends on conditions or variables not yet specified.