Question 1

"Standard" retinal cells respond to:

Accepted Answer

A)  motion, but not light 
B)  color, but not monochromatic shifts 
C)  light, but not motion 
D)  monochromatic shifts, but not color

Question 2

An example of a cognitive-science method being utilized by both art historians and psychologists is:

Accepted Answer

A)  reflexology 
B)  pictograms 
C)  radiovisiography 
D)  eye-tracking

Question 3

______________ is usually defined as a mental image, or something apart from the direct representation of experience

Accepted Answer

A)  Darstellung 
B)  Xiang 
C)  Vorstellung 
D)  Saccade

Question 4

The microsaccade is a rapid, unconscious motion of the eyes as they move in a ___________ pattern.

Accepted Answer

A)  circular 
B)  linear 
C)  pinwheel 
D)  zig-zag

Question 5

Studies in eye movement seem to imply a need to revise the notion that eye movements are largely _______ and therefore our attention is_______ .

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Question 6

Which author described the idea of the "closure of the vanishing point," and outlined a historical sequence for subjects in art?

Accepted Answer

A)  Taddeo Gaddi 
B)  Brian Rotman 
C)  Georg Wilheim Friedrich Hegel 
D)  Lucy Lippard

Question 7

How does Elkins attempt to reformulate the dichotomy between the verbal and the visual? What problems does he see in that dichotomy? What historical references does he use to support his position?

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Question 8

Pick the word that is most similar to the term visual object.

Accepted Answer

A)  gaze 
B)  image 
C)  photoreceptor 
D)  tableau

Question 9

Explain the steps between the initial image that is seen by the eye, and when it is processed in the visual cortex.

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Question 10

The skull that is painted in Hans Holbein's French Ambassadors, is an example of a _______.

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Exam 1: Concepts and Theories of the Visual