Blind-Sight Patients Seem Able to Make Many Visual Discriminations And

question 26

Multiple Choice

Blind-sight patients seem able to make many visual discriminations and, when pressed, to locate objects in their visual environment. Yet these same patients cannot walk across a room without bumping into something. The text suggests that blind-sight patients

• A) are able to make discriminations only when the stimuli are particularly clear.
• B) can make discriminations only in controlled laboratory conditions.
• C) do not feel they have a reason or justification for using the information that is apparently available to them.
• D) tend to rely on routine rather than use the information that is apparently available to them.

Understand Freud's theories of dream analysis, including the distinction between manifest content and latent content.

Analyze the concept of repression and how it is viewed differently by Freudian and modern psychologists.

Examine the concepts of suppression and how it differs from repression in the context of psychological responses to trauma.

Recognize the scientific shortcomings of Freud's theories, including the challenges to their testability and empirical support.