Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Perception is defined as
a. | the stimulation of the senses by events in the external world. | b. | the conversion of
physical energy into neural energy. | c. | cognitive problem-solving about emotional
events in the external world. | d. | the integration of sensations into percepts of
the objects. |
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Which of the following is an example of selective attention?
a. | reading a book and watching a football game simultaneously | b. | eating a candy bar
while watching a movie | c. | walking and talking with a
friend | d. | listening to a professor's lecture when others around you are whispering to
you |
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Your ability to listen carefully to your best friend talking while ignoring the
conversations around you is called
a. | auditory shadowing. | c. | attentive processing. | b. | selective
attention. | d. | selective
process formation. |
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Our tendency to automatically perceive a form as standing out from its surround
is known as
a. | closure. | c. | proximity. | b. | similarity. | d. | figure-ground
discrimination. |
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According to the principles of _____, we perceive items that are close together
as forming a group.
a. | closure | c. | figure and ground | b. | similarity | d. | proximity |
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Closure and proximity are
a. | Gestalt principles of perceptual organization. | b. | principles of
perceptual recognition. | c. | learned through operant
conditioning. | d. | principles of top-down processing. |
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The left and right eyes receive slightly different images of objects in the
environment. This fact is known as
a. | stroboscopic perception. | c. | binocular
parallax. | b. | superposition. | d. | binocular disparity. |
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The term binocular disparity refers to the
a. | distance between each retina. | b. | use of eye movements to detect
motion. | c. | difference in views perceived by each eye. | d. | More than one of the
above is correct. |
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As you move along, objects in the distance seem to be moving more slowly than do
closer objects. This is an example of
a. | retinal disparity. | c. | binocular parallax. | b. | stroboscopic vision. | d. | relative
motion. |
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_____ motion refers to the perception of motion when no object is actually
moving.
a. | Relative | c. | Induced | b. | Real | d. | Stroboscopic |
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The stimulation of specialized motion cells appear to be responsible for our
perception of
a. | motion aftereffect. | c. | stroboscopic motion. | b. | motion parallax. | d. | induced motion. |
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If you stare at the steps on an up escalator for a short time and then look at
the wall beside it, the wall appears to move downward because of what perceptual phenomenon?
a. | absolute motion | c. | relative motion | b. | selective adaptation | d. | stroboscopic
motion |
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Perceiving a large dark object as a cow fills which function of
perception?
a. | localization | c. | tracking movement | b. | recognition | d. | assigning
causality |
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Characteristics of objects in the visual field such as shape and color are
called _____ features.
a. | primitive | c. | illusory | b. | integration | d. | conjunction |
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Simple cells respond to visual stimuli which are
a. | of a particular length. | b. | in a particular orientation, anywhere in the
receptive field. | c. | in a particular orientation, in a particular place in the receptive
field. | d. | in a particular orientation and of a particular
length. |
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When simple two-dimensional features, such as lines and angles are combined, a
new object is perceived that cannot be understood by examining the component parts. The new
characteristics are known as
a. | emergent features. | c. | spatial networks. | b. | connectionist features. | d. | network detection
features. |
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A suitcase can be described as the combination of a cube and an arc, a pail as a
cylinder and an arc, and a flashlight as two cylinders and a block. These descriptive geometric
features are known as
a. | connectionist nodes. | c. | geons. | b. | hypercomplex features. | d. | models. |
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When you see your professor in the supermarket, you have trouble recognizing
him. What best explains this?
a. | The relations between geons are contrary to your expectations. | b. | A familiar stimulus
in an unfamiliar context is difficult to recognize. | c. | You have used bottom-up processing instead of
top-down processing. | d. | Ambiguous stimuli are easiest to judge in
familiar surroundings. |
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Because of _____, you may perceive a red ball on the kitchen table as an
apple.
a. | top-down processing | c. | feature extraction | b. | bottom-up processing | d. | geon analysis |
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Prosopagnosia is an inability to recognize faces. It is an example of a
breakdown of recognition called a(n)
a. | agnosia. | c. | visual ambiguity. | b. | aphasia. | d. | detail deficit. |
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