The phenomenon of lightness constancy best illustrates the importance of:
visual capture.
perceptual adaptation.
relative luminance.
retinal disparity.
the phi phenomenon.
The moon illusion occurs in part because distance cues at the horizon make the moon seem:
farther away and therefore larger.
closer and therefore larger.
farther away and therefore smaller.
closer and therefore smaller.
The philosopher John Locke believed that people:
learn to perceive the world through experience.
are endowed at birth with perceptual skills.
experience the whole as different from the sum of its parts.
should be unable to adapt to an inverted visual world.
When there is a conflict between bits of information received by two or more senses, which sense tends to dominate the others?
hearing
vision
smell
touch
None of the above; the senses work together as equal partners.
You probably perceive the diagram above as three separate objects due to the principle of:
proximity.
continuity.
closure.
connectedness.
The extrasensory ability to perceive an automobile accident taking place in a distant location is to ________ as the extrasensory ability to know at any moment exactly what your best friend is thinking is to ________.
telepathy; precognition
precognition; psychokinesis
psychokinesis; clairvoyance
clairvoyance; telepathy
When observing buffalo, the African Pygmy Kenge failed to experience size constancy. This best serves to support the view of perception advanced by the philosopher:
Plato.
Kant.
Descartes.
Liebnitz.
Locke.
Once we have formed a wrong idea about reality, we have more difficulty seeing the truth. This best illustrates the danger of:
linear perspective.
perceptual set.
relative clarity.
the cocktail party effect.
Which of the following is a binocular cue for the perception of distance?
interposition
convergence
closure
linear perspective
texture gradient
Psychics who have worked with police departments in an effort to solve difficult crimes have demonstrated the value of:
clairvoyance.
telepathy.
precognition.
all of the above.
none of the above.
The quick succession of briefly flashed images in a motion picture produces:
the Ponzo illusion.
stroboscopic movement.
convergence.
subliminal persuasion.
The horizon moon appears to shrink in size if it is viewed through a narrow tube that eliminates the perception of distance cues. This best illustrates the importance of:
context effects.
Janice experienced motion sickness simply from watching a movie scene of a thrilling motorcycle chase. Her experience best illustrates the impact of:
location constancy.
relative motion.
If two objects are assumed to be the same size, the object that casts the smaller retinal image is perceived to be:
more coarsely textured.
less hazy.
more distant.
closer.
In the absence of perceptual constancy:
objects would appear to change size as their distance from us changed.
depth perception would be based exclusively on monocular cues.
depth perception would be based exclusively on binocular cues.
depth perception would be impossible.
John Locke is to Immanuel Kant as ________ is to ________.
figure; ground
perception; sensation
nurture; nature
experience; learning
perceptual constancy; perceptual adaptation
Studying the road map before her trip, Colleen had no trouble following the route of the highway she planned to travel. Colleen's ability illustrates the principle of:
similarity.
Monkeys have feature-detecting brain cells that respond to illusory contours. This best illustrates that:
binocular cues are more informative than monocular cues.
the right and left eyes receive slightly different images of the same object.
sensation and perception blend into one continuous process.
sensory information may not be consciously experienced.
animals readily adjust to artificially inverted visual fields.
The ability to adjust to an artificially displaced, or even inverted, visual field is called:
selective attention.
shape constancy.
Kittens reared seeing only horizontal lines:
later had difficulty perceiving both horizontal and vertical lines.
later had difficulty perceiving vertical lines, but eventually regained normal sensitivity.
later had difficulty perceiving vertical lines, and never regained normal sensitivity.
showed no impairment in perception, indicating that neural feature detectors develop even in the absence of normal sensory experiences.
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