Question 1

People who lack color receptors for the wavelengths of red are most likely to experience

Accepted Answer

A)  prosopagnosia. 
B)  blindsight. 
C)  dichromatic vision. 
D)  tinnitus.

Question 2

Compared with rods, cones are

Accepted Answer

A)  more sensitive to dim light and more sensitive to fine detail. 
B)  less sensitive to dim light and less sensitive to fine detail. 
C)  more sensitive to dim light and less sensitive to fine detail. 
D)  less sensitive to dim light and more sensitive to fine detail.

Question 3

Renny knew the red tulip was closer to her than the yellow tulip because the red one cast a larger retinal image than the yellow one. This illustrates the importance of the distance cue known as

Accepted Answer

A)  relative size. 
B)  interposition. 
C)  proximity. 
D)  relative height.

Question 4

Clairvoyance refers to the

Accepted Answer

A)  extrasensory transmission of thoughts from one mind to another. 
B)  extrasensory perception of events that occur at places remote to the perceiver. 
C)  perception of future events, such as a person's fate. 
D)  ability to understand and share the emotions of another person.

Question 5

The importance of parallel processing is best illustrated by

Accepted Answer

A)  sensory adaptation. 
B)  Weber's law. 
C)  blindsight. 
D)  accommodation.

Question 6

Distant trees were located closer to the top of the artist's canvas than were the nearby flowers. The artist was clearly using the distance known as

Accepted Answer

A)  linear perspective. 
B)  closure. 
C)  relative height. 
D)  interposition.

Question 7

As Sherod walked away from the camera, the image of his body filled a smaller area of the television screen. Nevertheless, viewers did not perceive Sherod as suddenly shrinking. This illustrates

Accepted Answer

A)  perceptual adaptation. 
B)  size constancy. 
C)  closure. 
D)  interposition.

Question 8

Bipolar cells are located in the

Accepted Answer

A)  optic nerve. 
B)  retina. 
C)  blind spot. 
D)  lens.

Question 9

Which psychologists focused on principles of perceptual organization?

Accepted Answer

A)  behaviorists 
B)  psychoanalysts 
C)  Gestalt psychologists 
D)  parapsychologists

Question 10

The process by which the lens changes shape to focus the image of an object on the retina is called

Accepted Answer

A)  interposition. 
B)  accommodation. 
C)  transduction. 
D)  feature detection.

Question 11

According to the opponent-process theory, cells that are turned "on" by ________ light are turned "off" by ________ light.

Accepted Answer

A)  red; blue 
B)  blue; green 
C)  yellow; green 
D)  yellow; blue

Question 12

The philosopher Immanuel Kant emphasized that

Accepted Answer

A)  perception is the same as sensation. 
B)  we learn to perceive the world through experience. 
C)  the whole is equal to the sum of its parts. 
D)  perception depends on innate ways of organizing sensory experience.

Question 13

An integrated understanding of perception in terms of our sensory capacities, cultural contexts, and Gestalt principles is most clearly provided by

Accepted Answer

A)  opponent-process theory. 
B)  a biopsychosocial approach. 
C)  Weber's law. 
D)  signal detection theory.

Question 14

The organization of two-dimensional retinal images into three-dimensional perceptions is called

Accepted Answer

A)  retinal disparity. 
B)  depth perception. 
C)  perceptual constancy. 
D)  sensory interaction.

Question 15

Farouk insists that by intense mental concentration he can actually influence the mechanically generated outcomes of slot machines. Farouk is most specifically claiming to possess the power of

Accepted Answer

A)  telepathy. 
B)  clairvoyance. 
C)  psychokinesis. 
D)  precognition.

Question 16

Interposition is a cue for depth perception in which closer objects

Accepted Answer

A)  create larger retinal images than do distant objects. 
B)  obstruct our view of distant objects. 
C)  reflect more light to our eyes than do distant objects. 
D)  appear lower in the horizontal plane than do distant objects.

Question 17

The principles of continuity and closure best illustrate the importance of

Accepted Answer

A)  perceptual adaptation. 
B)  retinal disparity. 
C)  perceptual constancy. 
D)  top-down processing.

Question 18

After chicks were fitted with special lenses that visually displaced objects to the left, they

Accepted Answer

A)  quickly learned to compensate by pecking to the left of where the food appeared to be. 
B)  only gradually learned to compensate by pecking to the right of where the food appeared to be. 
C)  only gradually learned to compensate by pecking to the left of where the food appeared to be. 
D)  never adapted to the visual distortion.

Question 19

Who best illustrated that the perceived whole differs from the sum of its parts?

Accepted Answer

A)  evolutionary psychologists 
B)  parapsychologists 
C)  behaviorists 
D)  Gestalt psychologists

Question 20

ESP refers to

Accepted Answer

A)  perception that occurs apart from sensory input. 
B)  the ability to move objects without touching them. 
C)  a readiness to perceive an object in a distorted fashion. 
D)  all of these characteristics.

Exam 18: A: Vision and Perceptual Organization and Interpretation