Sensation: Vision, Hearing, and Other Senses

AP Psychology· difficulty 3/5

The trichromatic (Young-Helmholtz) theory of color vision proposes

  • A

    Four types of cones sensitive to red, green, blue, and yellow

  • B

    Three types of cones sensitive to red, green, and blue

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  • C

    One cone type whose firing rate encodes all colors

  • D

    Two types of cones tuned to long and short wavelengths

Explanation

Different combinations of cone activity produce all perceived colors.

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