Marisol stares at an image of the U.S. flag with the stars black, the field around the stars yellow, and the stripes black and green. She then stares at a white sheet of paper. The afterimage of a red, white, and blue flag is explained by which theory of color vision?

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The opponent-process theory explains the phenomenon of afterimages. According to this theory, colors are perceived in terms of opposing pairs: red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white. When Marisol looks at the altered flag colors and then at a white sheet, the afterimage she sees in the original flag colors (red, white, and blue) is due to the way her visual system processes and then adapts to the opposing colors.

Marisol Stares at an Image of the U