Exam 8: Motion

According to __________________, when the comparison structure detects a difference between the image-retina system and the input from the eye-head system, we __________________.

Researchers use point-light displays to study our perception of:

According to corollary discharge theory, if you are tracking the path of a hit baseball with your eyes, you can detect that it is moving because:

When you look up into the dark night sky and fixate on a single star, it appears to move. This is called:

When clouds move in front of a full moon on a windy night, we perceive that it is the moon that is moving rather than the clouds. This is called:

We perceive our direction of self-motion with an accuracy of __________________ or less.

In motion perception, the "time to contact" is called:

When people experience the motion aftereffect illusion, there is activity in:

If you were to look at a spiral that is rotating clockwise for a couple of minutes and then look at a stationary object (e.g., your hand), you would perceive the illusion that:

When sitting inside your car in a parking lot, the car next to you backs up, giving you the perception that your car is actually moving. This is called:

The fact that an approaching object takes up increasingly larger portions of your retina provides a motion cue called:

The correspondence problem affects the visual system as it detects motion in that:

In order for us to detect the motion of an object, it must move at least:

The autokinetic effect:

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

We can detect that an object is moving by comparing its movement to the movement of the background. This source of information from the environment deals with:

The pattern of movement on our retina is called the:

Which of the following statements about induced movement is TRUE?

After staring at the continuous movement of a waterfall for a few minutes, you look at a patch of nearby trees and perceive apparent movement. This is called:

Regarding our perception of self-motion, Helmholtz argued that the __________________ of information was most important while Sherrington argued that the __________________ of information was most important. Evidence supports __________________.