Jake's Excellent Peripheral Vision Enabled Him to Detect a Brief

question 111

Multiple Choice

Jake's excellent peripheral vision enabled him to detect a brief flash of light far to his left,even though he couldn't recognize what he had seen.His experience best illustrates

• A) top-down processing.
• B) prosopagnosia.
• C) sensation.
• D) priming.

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Definitions:

Hallucinations

Perceptions in the absence of external stimuli, such as seeing or hearing things that aren't there.

DSM

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a standardized classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals.

Discrete Categories

Distinct and separate groups or classifications without overlap.

Reduction

The process of making something smaller or less in amount, size, or importance.