The Study of Psychophysics _____

question 98

Multiple Choice

The study of psychophysics _____.

• A) is a very recent area of psychological inquiry
• B) occurred in response to the controversy surrounding the cognitive revolution
• C) dates back to nineteenth-century Germany and the experimental roots of psychology
• D) is controversial because it attempts to pull together two very different fields: physics and physiology

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