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- A. development
- B. learning
- C. motivation
- D. perception
Explanation: Gestalt psychologists were chiefly concerned with how the mind organizes sensory information into meaningful wholes, making perception…
Correct answer: perception- A. location constancy
- B. brightness constancy
- C. the phi phenomenon
- D. binocular disparity
Explanation: The phi phenomenon occurs when successive stationary lights are perceived as a single moving light, showing that perceived motion can be…
Correct answer: the phi phenomenon- A. binocular disparity
- B. linear perspective
- C. accommodation
- D. assimilation
Explanation: Accommodation is the change in the curvature, and therefore focal length, of the eye's lens so that an image falls sharply on the retina.
Correct answer: accommodation- A. relative size
- B. linear perspective
- C. interposition
- D. all of the above
Explanation: Relative size, linear perspective, and interposition all provide depth information using one eye, so they are monocular cues.
Correct answer: all of the above- A. figure-ground discrimination
- B. depth perception
- C. feature detection
- D. signal detection theory
Explanation: The visual cliff created an apparent drop-off to test whether infants and animals could detect depth.
Correct answer: depth perception- A. telekinesis
- B. delusion
- C. hallucinations
- D. illusion
Explanation: The person misinterprets a real external object, the rope, as a snake, which is an illusion.
Correct answer: illusion- A. linear perspective
- B. convergence
- C. light and shadow
- D. relative position
Explanation: The visual system normally assumes light comes from above, so shadows make surfaces appear either convex or concave.
Correct answer: light and shadow- A. transduction
- B. chaining
- C. automatization
- D. loci
Explanation: Reading a word is highly automatic, so in the Stroop task it competes with the less automatic requirement to name the ink color.
Correct answer: automatization- A. Weber
- B. Kohler
- C. Koffka
- D. Wertheimer
Explanation: Wertheimer's study of apparent motion marked an early major step in experimental perception and helped establish Gestalt psychology.
Correct answer: Wertheimer- A. selective attention
- B. spontaneous recovery
- C. good continuation
- D. echoic memory
Explanation: Dichotic listening presents different messages to the two ears, allowing researchers to examine which information a person selects for…
Correct answer: selective attention491. One of the earliest and most important color vision theories was formulated by _________________?
- A. Young and Helson
- B. Meissner and Middleton
- C. Rutherford and Young
- D. Young and Helmholtz
Explanation: The Young-Helmholtz, or trichromatic, theory proposes three types of cone receptors that respond primarily to red, green, and blue…
Correct answer: Young and Helmholtz- A. good continuation
- B. closure
- C. proximity
- D. None of these
Explanation: Good continuation is the Gestalt tendency to perceive smoothly flowing or continuous patterns rather than disconnected segments.
Correct answer: good continuation- A. continuity
- B. closure
- C. size constancy
- D. motion parallax
Explanation: Size constancy allows a distant object with a very small retinal image to be perceived as a large object when distance and surrounding…
Correct answer: size constancy494. The perception of depth and distance in a 3-dimensional space depends mostly on ________________?
- A. texture-density gradient
- B. interposition
- C. binocular vision
- D. movement detectors
Explanation: Binocular vision uses information from both eyes, especially retinal disparity, to produce a strong perception of depth in…
Correct answer: binocular vision- A. Gestaltists
- B. Phenomenologists
- C. Cognitivists
- D. Transactionalist
Explanation: Gestaltists formulated principles such as proximity, similarity, closure, and good continuation to explain how people organize sensory…
Correct answer: Gestaltists- A. relates to electrical stimulation of the brain
- B. deals with experience common to the state of alpha-wave relaxation
- C. occurs in response to sequentially flashing light
- D. occurs in response to a spot of light in a darkened room
Explanation: The phi phenomenon is the perception of movement produced when stationary lights are flashed in rapid sequence, as in some forms of…
Correct answer: occurs in response to sequentially flashing light- A. structuralism
- B. behaviorism
- C. gestalt
- D. functionalism
Explanation: Gestalt psychology made perception its central focus, especially how the mind organizes sensory elements into meaningful wholes.
Correct answer: gestalt- A. brightness constancy
- B. shape constancy
- C. size constancy
- D. None of these
Explanation: Shape constancy allows a familiar object to be perceived as having the same shape even when its retinal image changes with viewing angle…
Correct answer: shape constancy- A. convergence
- B. retinal disparity
- C. assimilation
- D. interposition
Explanation: Interposition is a monocular depth cue because one object blocking part of another is enough to signal that it is nearer.
Correct answer: interposition- A. Zollner
- B. Wundt
- C. Muller-Lyer
- D. Poggendroff
Explanation: The Müller-Lyer illusion occurs when equal lines appear unequal because of inward- or outward-pointing arrowheads at their ends.
Correct answer: Muller-Lyer