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What is the function of saccadic eye movement?
 
  a. It moves the eye backwards or forwards a very small amount so that the image does not fade on the retina.
  b. It keeps an image stable on the retina while we move around in the environment.
  c. It tracks objects that are moving at a smooth, regular speed.
  d. It focuses the fovea over the material to be seen.

Question 2

Imagine that you need to meet someone at the airport. You would notice him more quickly if he had told you Look for the only person wearing a hat than if he told you, Look for the only person not wearing a hat. This situation is most similar to
 
  a. the Stroop effect.
  b. the isolated-feature/combined-feature effect.
  c. the feature-present/feature-absent effect.
  d. Wolfe's finding that we detect a target more accurately if the target appears frequently, rather than rarely.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: d

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Ans: c





 

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