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lindiwe

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Upon awakening from a nap, you open your eyes and immediately have the image of a cat's paw rapidly expanding on your retina. Which concept explains why you perceive this image as moving and not as an expanding object fixed in space?
 
  a. retinal disparity
  b. perceptual constancy
  c. movement gradient
  d. eye convergence

Question 2

If our perceptual system did not follow the organizing principle of constancy, ____.
 
  a. external stimuli would be unidentifiable
  b. people would appear to change shape as they move in different directions
  c. sensory information would be delivered to the brain in incomplete units
  d. perceptual processing would be inefficient during times of stress


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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
b

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
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lindiwe

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Reply #2 on: Jun 19, 2018
Thank you!


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Reply #3 on: Jun 19, 2018
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