All of the following are parts of the ear EXCEPT:
A. Pinna B. Aqueous humor C. Semicircular canals D. Oval window
Sensation And Perception Psychology MCQs
As the large butterfly flew toward Tahir, he could tell it was getting closer because he could feel his eyes turning inward toward his nose as he watched it. In this instance, Tahir was able to judge how far away the butterfly was using the depth cue of:
A. Relative size B. Accommodation C. Depth perception D. Convergence
Which sense tells you how your body is oriented in the world?
A. Kinesthetic B. Vestibular C. Olfactory D. Gustatory
Jamil’s horse looks just as black in the brilliant sunlight as it does in the dim light of the stable. This illustrates what is known as:
A. Perceptual adaptation B. The phi phenomenon C. Perceptual set D. Lightness constancy
As Babra drove down the highway, the pickets of the fences moved past her in a blur, but the mountains in the distance didn’t appear to move at all. Babra was experiencing:
A. The binocular cue for depth called convergence B. The monocular cue for depth called linear perspective C. The pictorial cue for depth called texture gradient D. The monocular cue for depth called motion parallax
The light around the movie marquee flashed on-and-off in succession However, Jamil did not perceive them as separate lights flashing, but instead saw a continuous band of light moving around the edge of the marquee. Jamil’s perception illustrates:
A. Feature detection. B. Bottom-up processing C. Pre-attentive processing D. The phi phenomenon
The fact that we tend to see stars in the sky as constellations refers to the Gestalt principle of:
A. Proximity B. Closure C. Common Fate D. Similarity
Information picked up by the body’s receptor called is termed:
A. Cognition B. Perception C. Adaptation D. Sensation
The function of the lens is to:
A. Locate in image B. Focus an image on the retina C. Combine the location and projection on the blind spot D. Project an image on the cornea
In bright light, the iris_______and the pupil________to control the amount of light entering the eye.
A. Expands; constricts B. Constricts; expands C. Focuses; constricts D. Constricts; focuses