A person reports being totally deaf, yet she gives vigorous startle responses to loud sounds. Of such occasions she reports, "I just felt I had to crouch quickly." These findings would be most similar to findings from studies on __________.

A) selective attention and the cocktail-party effect
B) people with blindsight
C) the effects of mental set on the perception of ambiguous figures
D) people who have reasonably good generic memory but virtually no procedural memory

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sofia gamboa · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : B, Explanation :  This scenario is most similar to findings from studies on people with blindsight, who have lost their conscious visual perception but retain some ability to detect and respond to visual stimuli. In this case, the person has lost their conscious auditory perception but retains a startle response to loud sounds.

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