Vision Quiz
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As I was driving along the freeway, a huge truck came hurtling up behind me. It seemed to take ages for the long body to get past as it overtook me. Afterwards, it gradually disappeared up the road in front of me. Which of the following principles would I have applied to help me realise that the truck remained the same size, although its image on my retinas changed?
A. shape constancy and size constancy
B. size constancy and orientation constancy
C. brightness constancy and orientation constancy
D. brightness constancy and size constancy
Are clustered near the center of the retina, they detect fine detail and allow color vision.
A. Light
B. Rods
C. Cones
D. Energy
Intensity
A. Distance from one wave peak to the next
B. Color experienced
C. Height
D. Amount of contained energy; influences brightness
Identify the first process in receiving and interpreting visual stimuli.
A. interpretation
B. reception
C. transmission
D. transduction
the ability to recognize details in visual images
A. Figure-ground discrimination
B. Visual closure
C. Visual discrimination
Which is not believed to influence our perceptual set
A. Genes
B. Emotion
C. Motivation
D. Culture
What is the protective covering over your eye?
A. refraction
B. cornea
C. puppies
D. eyeballs
What part of your eye sends the messages to and from your brain?
A. retina
B. optic nerve
C. iris
D. vitreous humor
_____ is dependent upon overlapping fields of vision combined into one image in the brain
A. optical illusions
B. depth perception
C. perceiving motion
D. visual perception
The number of complete wavelengths that can pass a point in a given time, depends on the length of the wave
A. Waves
B. Frequency
C. Wavelenghts
D. Peaks
Perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent color, brightness, shape, and size) even as illumination and retinal images change.
A. Depth Perception
B. Perceptual Constancy
C. Form Perception
D. Figure-Ground
What part of the eye allows us to see color?
A. cones
B. rods
C. iris
D. eyeball
Rods are responsible for __________ and ____________________ while cones are responsible for _________ and _________
A. colour vision and detail: night vision and peripheral vision
B. night vision and detail; colour vision and peripheral vision
C. night vision and colour vision; colour vision and detail
D. night vision and peripheral vision; colour vision and detail
……………….. or configurationism is a school of psychology that emerged in the early twentieth century in Austria and Germany as a theory of perception that was a rejection of basic principles of Wilhelm Wundt’s and Edward Titchener’s elementalist and structuralist psychology
A. Gestalt – Psychology
B. Light – Psychology
C. Color – Psychology
D. Vision – Psychology
The process where stimuli is converted into a neural signal, then send to the brain:
A. perception
B. sensation
C. conduction
D. transduction
