Exam 5: Extension A: Perceiving the World

According to your textbook, the bird known as the American woodcock

When Abby wants to draw a highway so that it appears to be going into the horizon, she makes the parallel lines of the highway converge as it nears the horizon.This illustrates the use of the pictorial depth cue known as

Regarding cross-cultural studies of pictorial cues, which of the following statements is FALSE?

You have just stolen the Hope Diamond.As you try to escape the police by blending in with the noon-time pedestrian rush, you start feeling everyone's eyes on you.It seems like every person you pass is looking at you as if they know you've done something wrong.This phenomenon shows that

In making a charcoal pencil drawing, which pictorial depth cue could you most effectively use to give a two-dimensional design a three-dimensional appearance?

If you are riding in a car and are running low on gas, your attention will shift to gas stations.This is an example of how _____ affects one's attention.

When one can alternately see both a wine glass and then two faces within the same image, this illustrates the reversibility of _____ images.

When 6- to 14-month old infants are placed in the middle of a visual cliff, they usually

The most basic source of depth perception and stereoscopic vision is

The organizational principle demonstrated by the stimuli below in which you tend to see a line of X's and a line of O's is known as

The stimuli below are seen as one group of circles and one group of squares due to the organizational principle of

According to inattentional blindness, we are likely to not perceive something when our attention is

A white shirt reflects more light outdoors than in a dimly lit room; however, it is seen as being equally bright in both places.This demonstrates the role of _____ in perception.

A meaningful mental model of external events is known as a(n)

You are using one eye to look through a microscope.Which of the listed depth cues is available to you?

Which binocular cue is controlled by the muscles attached to one's eyeballs and allows one to estimate distance under 50 feet?

When _____ is irritating or annoying, it can be attention-getting; while if it is presently without variation, one will quickly habituate.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, over ___ American children have ADHD and about _____ will continue to show some symptoms as adults.

The brain actively selects, organizes, and integrates sensory information to construct a model of the world through the process known as

Brightness constancy occurs in part because