Free Cognitive Psychology MCQs with Answers
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- A. Gestalt
- B. Perceptual constancy
- C. Schema
- D. Perceptual adaptation
Explanation: A schema is an organized knowledge framework that helps interpret incomplete or ambiguous sensory input.
Correct answer: Schema142. The organization of two-dimensional retinal images into three-dimensional perceptions is called:
- A. Sensory interaction
- B. Retinal interaction
- C. Perceptual constancy
- D. Depth perception
Explanation: Depth perception is the process of converting two-dimensional retinal images into an experience of a three-dimensional world.
Correct answer: Depth perception- A. The phi phenomenon
- B. Perceptual constancy
- C. Interposition
- D. Selective attention
Explanation: Selective attention allows a person to focus on a chosen stimulus while filtering out competing sounds.
Correct answer: Selective attention- A. Perceptual schemas
- B. Relative clarity
- C. Shape constancy
- D. Stroboscopic movement
Explanation: Perceptual schemas are mental templates that guide interpretation of unclear patterns, causing people to detect familiar forms such as…
Correct answer: Perceptual schemas- A. Perceptual adaptation
- B. Relative clarity
- C. Change blindness
- D. The cocktail party effect
Explanation: The cocktail party effect is the ability to attend selectively to one auditory source while filtering competing sounds. Mrs.
Correct answer: The cocktail party effect- A. Grouping of stimuli into smooth, uninterrupted patterns
- B. Perception of an object as unchanging in shape regardless of our own viewing angle
- C. Tendency for novel or unfamiliar stimuli to capture our attention
- D. Perceptual adjustment to an artificially displaced visual field
Explanation: Perceptual adaptation is the adjustment of perception to altered sensory input, such as a visual field shifted by special glasses or…
Correct answer: Perceptual adjustment to an artificially displaced visual field- A. The cocktail party effect
- B. Perceptual set
- C. Relative clarity
- D. The Ponzo illusion
Explanation: A perceptual set is a readiness to interpret sensory information in line with expectations or beliefs, so the rumors led Alyosha to…
Correct answer: Perceptual set- A. Context effects
- B. Perceptual adaptation
- C. Proximity
- D. Visual capture
Explanation: Context effects occur when the surrounding setting influences recognition, so seeing the professor outside the familiar classroom context…
Correct answer: Context effects- A. Linear perspective
- B. Convergence
- C. Interposition
- D. Retinal disparity
Explanation: A 3D film presents slightly different images to the two eyes, reproducing retinal disparity, the binocular depth cue produced by the brain…
Correct answer: Retinal disparity- A. Retinal disparity
- B. Visual capture
- C. Perceptual constancy
- D. Top-down processing
Explanation: Knowing that an image can reverse directs attention and expectations, allowing prior knowledge to influence interpretation through…
Correct answer: Top-down processing- A. 20
- B. 2
- C. 10
- D. 100
Explanation: A 20-decibel increase represents a 100-fold increase in sound intensity because each 10-decibel increase multiplies intensity by 10.
Correct answer: 100- A. Constancy
- B. Simultaneous contrasts
- C. Perceptual inference
- D. Reversible figures
Explanation: These figures can be seen in two stable ways, such as a rat or professor, and a young or old woman, so they are reversible figures.
Correct answer: Reversible figures- A. Illuminate the entire retina
- B. Facilitate the process of accommodation
- C. Increase the input of light into the eye
- D. Minimize sensory adaptation
Explanation: Tiny, continual eye movements shift the image across fresh retinal receptors, preventing the visual system from adapting completely to an…
Correct answer: Minimize sensory adaptation- A. Tinnitus
- B. Accommodation
- C. Blindsight
- D. Priming
Explanation: A briefly presented and masked stimulus can influence responses without reaching conscious awareness, which is studied as masked priming.
Correct answer: Priming- A. Synesthesia
- B. Signal detection
- C. Sensation
- D. Accommodation
Explanation: Sensation is the detection and initial encoding of physical stimulus energy by sensory receptors and the nervous system.
Correct answer: Sensation- A. Synesthesia
- B. Blindsight
- C. Subliminal perception
- D. The McGurk effect
Explanation: Blindsight occurs when a person lacks conscious visual awareness yet can correctly respond to or identify visual information, usually…
Correct answer: Blindsight- A. Intensity
- B. Color
- C. Purity
- D. Brightness
Explanation: Wavelength is the main physical property associated with hue, or perceived color, whereas intensity is related mainly to brightness.
Correct answer: Color- A. Under low levels of illumination
- B. From very short distances
- C. With one eye covered
- D. In relation to surrounding objects
Explanation: Color constancy is strongest when an object is judged alongside surrounding objects, because the visual system uses the surrounding…
Correct answer: In relation to surrounding objects- A. Proximity
- B. Relative clarity
- C. Similarity
- D. Connectedness
Explanation: The Gestalt principle of similarity groups items that share visual features, such as the red cardinals and brown cardinals being perceived…
Correct answer: Similarity- A. Shape constancy
- B. The principle of continuity
- C. Retinal disparity
- D. The misperception of distance
Explanation: The Ames room illusion makes people appear to shrink or enlarge because the viewer incorrectly assumes the room has normal rectangular…
Correct answer: The misperception of distance