Perception Quiz

1. Experiencing a green afterimage of a red object is most easily explained by:

The opponent process theory

The gate control theory

Weber's law

The Young-Helmholz theory

2. The process by which the lens changes shape so as to focus the image of an object on the retina is called

Adaptation

Accomodation

Convergence

Feature detectors

3. In the context of visual perception, convergence refers to the:

Tendency to perceive parallel lines as coming closer together in the distance

Extent to which the eyes turn toward each other when looking at an object

Current trend towards a combination of hte theories supporting both the nature and the nurture positions

Tendency to see stimuli that are very near to each other as parts of a unified object

4. People are more likely to perceive a figure and ground illustration as reversable if they are told it is reversible. This best illustrates the importance of:

Bottom-up processing

Retinal disparity

Perceptual adaptation

Perceptual constancy

Top-down processing

5. The amplitude of electromagnetic waves determines the ______ of light.

Absolute threshold

Brightness

Hue

Difference threshold

Wavelength

6. Interposition if a cue for depth perception in which closer objects

Create larger retinal images than do distant objects

Obstruct our veiw of distant objects

Reflect more light to our eyes than do distant objects

Appear lower inthe horizontal plane than do distant objects

7. It wasn't until Clara heard some of her classmates laughing loudly during history class that she began to perceive the professor's ongoing lecture to be very funny. this provides an illustration of:

Proximity

Convergence

Perceptual adaptation

Context effects

Interposition

8. Weber's lawis relevant to an understanding of:

Absolute thresholds

Difference thresholds

Sensory adaptation

Sensory interaction

All of the above

9. The coiled, fluid filled tube inwhich sound waves trigger nerve impulses is called the:

Eusachian tube

Auditory canal

Semicircular canal

Cochlea

Vestibular apparatus

10. If two different stars cast reinal images of the same size, the star that appears to be is likely to be perceived as larger than the one that appears to be __.

Brighter; dimmer

Moving; stationary

Father away, closer

High in the sky, near the horizon

11. Pable things 75 watt light bulbs give more light than a 60 watt light bulb. His wife things both are equally bright. Pablo has a __________ threshold than his wife.

Lower difference

Lower absolute

Higher difference

Higher absolute

12. There are no specialized nerual receptors cells devoted solely to the sense of:

Pain

Pressure

Sight

Hearing

13. Ganglion cells converge to form

The basilar membrane

Bipolar cells

Auditory nerves

The optic nerve

14. After corrective eye surgery, patients blind from birth have the greatest difficulty in visually distinguishing between stimuli that differ in:

Color

Brightness

Shape

Size

15. John Locke would have suggested that a perceptual set results from:

Visual capture