The Philosophical Question: "Does a Tree Falling in the Woods

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Multiple Choice

The philosophical question: "Does a tree falling in the woods with no one around make a sound?" would be best interpreted by a psychologist interested in sensation and perception to mean that:

• A) without transduction of sound waves into a neural signal, technically, there is no sound.
• B) bottom-up processing does not allow conceptual knowledge to influence perception, and so there is no sound.
• C) for a sound to be defined as such, it must cross absolute threshold in a human ear.
• D) vibrations in air pressure are best detected by the auditory sense, rather than the olfactory, somatosensory, gustatory, or visual sense.

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