MCQs of Psychology – Sensation And Perception

Which theory would predict that the American flag have a green, black, and yellow afterimage?

The illusion of movement created by presenting visual stimuli in rapid succession is called:

In a painting, train tracks may look as if they go off into the distance because the artist draws the tracks as converging lines a pictorial cue to depth known as:

Sanam has just finished a long exhausting 6-mile run. She and her friend lamal are gazing at a hill they need a climb to get back to their car jamal asks Sanam, “Gee how steep do you think that hill is?” Based on research by Proffitt and his colleagues Sanam is likely to:

The fact that cultural groups with less exposure to carpentered buildings are less susceptible to the Muller-Lyer illusion suggests that:

Perception of pitch can best be explained by:

In what way (s) is the sense of taste like the sense of smell?

Which school of painting applied theory of feature analysis to canvas by building figures out of simple features?

In the study by Kenrick and Gutierres (1980), exposing male subjects to a TV show dominated by extremely beautiful women:

What is it called when light rays impact our visual system?

A gestalt is best described as a (n):

The tendency to see all the individual spokes in a bicycle wheel as part of a larger single unit best illustrate the principle of:

Ashley is trying to create a small Christmas village on the mantle of her fireplace. She bought 3-inch high figures to put near the back. Ashley is trying to increase the impression of depth in her Christmas village through the use of:

The influence of schemas on our interpretations of ambiguous sensations best illustrates:

In Psychophysical research the absolute threshold has been arbitrarily define as:

A tone-deaf person would probably not be able to tell two musical notes apart unless they were very different. We could say that this person has a relatively large:

In their study of the influence of subliminal perception on attitudes Krosnick and his colleagues (1992) found:

In farsightedness:

The collection of rod and cone receptors that funnel signals to a particular visual cell in the retina make up that cell’s

The visual pathway that has been characterized as_________travels through the dorsal stream to the parietal lobes, whereas the pathway that has been labelled the ______travels through the ventral stream to the temporal lobes.

The fact that the corner of a building thrust toward the viewer looks shorter than an inside corner thrust away from the viewer can be accounted for by the:

Christina was sking down an intermediate run when the run broke into two separate trails. One trial turned off at a 90-degree angle; the second trail appeared to continue in the same general direction she had been headed if Christina takes the second trial her actions would be consistent with the Gestalt principle of:

The study of phenomena such as clairvoyance and telepathy is called:

The organizational principles identified by Gestalt psychologists best illustrate the importance of:

The visually perceived distance between ourselves and an object provides an important cue for our perception of the object’s:

Which stimulus is closer to the observer?

Hallucinations are different from illusions in that hallucinations are

The smallest, weakest stimulus that an organism can detect is known as the_______threshold.

The absolute threshold for touch is

Weber’s law states that the just Noticeable Difference between stimuli is a (n):

All of the following are parts of the human eye EXCEPT:

Which part of the eye acts like the film in a camera?

Frequency is to________amplitude is to_________.

Limen refers to:

The process where the lens of the eye changes shape is called:

What sensory organs responsible for balance are also related to motion sickness?

When infants are placed in the middle of a visual cliff, they usually

When travelling car, near objects seem to move past you faster than distant objects. This is called

Internal standards used to judge stimuli are referred to as:

Illusions are:

The fact that that we can walk and chew gun at the same time illustrates that:

The fact that objects that are near each other tend to be grouped together is known as

Waqas looked directly into a very bright light and demaged his retina. The ophthalmologist has told him that he has sustained massive demage to his rods but for the most part his cones have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Waqas’ vision is that he will now have:

The sensation of his results from the simultaneous stimulation of adjacent________sports on the skin.

The barn owl’s right ear opens slightly upward while its left ear opens slightly downward. This asymmetry is most useful for enabling the owl to detect the________of a sound.

Patients’ negative expectations about the outcome of a surgical procedure can increase their postoperative experience of pain. This best illustrate the importance of:

Which of the following pain control techniques is emphasized in the Lamaze method of childbirth training?

The underlying mechanism for perceptual expectancies is:

Which of the following is considered a monocular cure for depth?

Inductive reasoning goes from the specific to the general. Which of the following is analogous to inductive reasoning?

Closure, nearness, similarity, and continuation are categories of:

The tendency to fill in gaps in the perception of a figure is called:

The text’s illustration of the police officer’s faulty “eyewitness” identification is an example of:

Attention is aroused by:

Decreased perceptual response to a repeated stimulus is called:

the tendency to group together objects that are the same size, shape,color, or form is known as;

Receptors for the kinesthetic sense are found in the:

the local fire department sounds the 12 o’clock whistle. The process by which your ears convert the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of:

While finger painting, Iqbal mixed yellow paint and blue paint and ended up with green, an example of:

Which cells for visual processing are located closest to the back of the retina?

Waqas was having his hearing tested and a number of the tones that were presented were so faint he was not able to detect them. These faint sounds would:

Hearing a sequence of sounds of different pitches is to______as recognizing the sound sequence as a familiar melody is to:

Television sets are able to recreate the entire visible spectrum by additively mixing three primary colors. This process is similar to the view of human color vision called

The McGurk effect best illustrates:

The structure of that transduces sound viberations into nerve impulses is the

Petra locked directly into a very bright light and damaged her retina. The ophthalmologist has told her that she has sustained massive damage to her cones, but for the most part her rods have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Petra’s vision is that she will now have

Small distortions in the eye’s shape are most likely to affect:

Sensory adaptation refers to:

After having your picture taken with a yellow flash, you momentarily see blue sports floating before your eyes. This phenomenon is best explained by:

Which theory would suggest that watching a horror movie late at night could lower your absolute threshold for sound as you subsequently tired to fall asleep?

The semicircular canals are most directly relevant to:

if a 100-Hz tone had to be increased to 110 Hz for a subject to just notice the difference, you would predict that a 1000-Hz tone would have to be increased to:

A pasychophysicist would be most directly concerned with:

Fifteen minutes after Zaigham left the brightly lit hallway and entered the dark passageway, dark adaptation was:

Effat Ashiq has a bad case of vertigo. She feels like the room is springing, and she has trouble keeping her balance. It is possible that this sense of desequilibrium is a result of excess activity in neurons originating in the

Which of the following is true with regards to depth perception?

The Gestalt principle of proximity refers to the idea that:

We often perceive a series of dots on a printed from as a “solid” line because of the Gestalt principle of:

Which of the following is true of psychics who have worked with police departments in an effort to solve difficult crimes?

Almost half the birds in the yard were brown cordinals and the rest were bright red cardinals, so Jimmy perceived them as two distinct groups of birds. This best illustrate the principle of:

Which of the following is a cue used by artists to convey depth on a flat canvas?

The distorted room illusion involving two girls who rapidly shrink or enlarge can best be explained in terms of:

In order to experience color constancy it is helpful to view things:

According to the Young-Helmholtz theory, when both red and green sensitive cones are stimulated simultaneously, a person should see:

The rubber-hand illusion best illustrates the importance of:

Visual information is processed by:

The volley principle is most directly revelant to our perception of:

Eric has been wearing green welding googlers for the 30 minutes, Based on the opponent-process theory of color vision, when Eric takes off the green goggles he should expect that objects will temporarily appear to be:

If the human eye was not responsive to differences in the wavelength of light, we would not be able to perceive differences in:

According to place theory, the perception of:

The detection and encoding of stimulus energies by the nervous system is called:

Ms sadaf, a recent stroke victim, cannot consciously perceive the large book on the coffee table in front of her Yet, when urged to identify the book, she correctly reads aloud the printed title on the book cover. Her response best illustrates:

In experiments, an image is quickly flashed and then replaced by a “masking” stimulus that inhibits conscious perception of the original image. In these experiments, the researchers are studying the effect of:

Rods are:

The sense associated with the perception of smell is:

The constant quivering movements of our eyes are necessary in order to:

Loudness is to amplitude as pitch is to:

The illusion of the rat or the professor and the young lady or the old lady are both examples of what type of illusion?

The sense associated with the perception of taste is referred to as the:

A 3D movie enhances one’s sense of depth perception by simulating the effects of:

People are more likely to perceive a figure and ground illustration as reversible if they are told it is reversible. This best illustrate the importance of:

Taste receptors are located:

An 80-decibel sound is______times louder than a 60-decibel sound.

Visual problems such as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism are the result of:

Human experience the longest visible electromagnetic waves as the color________and the shortest visible waves as_______.

Dan was able to tell that the voice he heard calling his name was coming from the building on his left because of:

Subliminal means:

The absolute threshold for hearing is arbitarily defined as zero:

If you project a red, a green, and a blue light into space, the point at which the three lights cross will lead to the perception of:

Mrs. Aftab is just beginning to experience sensorineural hearing loss. She is likely to have the greatest difficulty hearing sounds of:

Perceptual adapatation refers to the:

After hearing rumors about the outbreak of an infectious disease, Alyosha began to perceive his normal aches and pains as disease related sympotms. His reaction best illustrated the impact of:

Although Sue Yen sees her chemistry professor several times a week , she didn’t recognizee the professor when she saw her in the grocery store. This best illustrate the importance of:

While reading a novel, Rizvi isn’t easily distracted by the sounds of the TV or even by his brothers’ loud arguments.This best illustrates:

The perception of a humanlike face in the random configurations of the lunar landscape best illustrates the impact of______on visual perception.

Because she was listening to the news on the radio, Mrs.Salim didn’t perceive a word her husband was saying.Her experience best illustrates:

A concept that help us to interpret ambiguous sensations is called a:

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

Timor is painting a picture of a jet on a runway; how ever, in his painting the sides of the runway are parallel to each other. Timor’s picture will seem to lack depth because he has failed to make use of the monocular depth cue of:

Jamil is looking at two objects he knows are the same size. However, it appears that one of the objects looks smaller than the other. Therefore, Jamil concludes the smaller objects is father away from him than the one that appears larger. Jmil is using what method to determine depth?

The principle of connectedness would most likely lead you to perceve all the______as parts of a single unit.

The perception that Bugs Bunny is hopping across a movie screen best illustrates:

When there is a conflict between bits of information received by two or more senses, which sense tends to dominate the others?

The sand at Akram’s feet appeared coarse, and he could see the individual grains of sand. However, the sand down the beach appeared to be much finer and less granular. This apparent difference in the sand may have partially resulted from the depth cue of:

Interposition refers to:

The horizon Moon appears to shrink in size if it is viewed through a narrow tube that eliminates the perception of distance cues. The best illustrate the importance of:

As she gazed down from a bridge at the rapidly flowing river. Naila felt as though she were moving. Her experience best illustrates the phenomenon of:

The cocktail party effect provides an example of:

The sequentially flashing Christmas tree lights appeared to generate pulsating waves of motion. This best illustrates:

Babar was at a football game, and even though people wearing green jackets were spread fairly evenly throughout the stands, he still perceived all the people in green jackets as a single group of visiting fans. Babar’s perception is most consistent with the Gestalt principle of

The Moon illusion can best be explained in terms of the relationship between:

In one experiment, most of the participants who viewed a videotape of men tossing a basketball remained unaware of an umbrella-toting woman sauntering across the screen. This illustrated:

Which eye structure is responsible for dark adaptation?

Which of the following is the psychological dimension that captures the purity and vividness of color?

Which of the following measures the strength of the sound wave?

All of the following are parts of the ear EXCEPT:

The moon illusion occurs when you

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:

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:

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 illlustrates:

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:

Which sense tells you how your body is oriented in the world?

The fact that we tend to see stars in the sky as constellations refers to the Gestalt principle of:

All of the following are monocular cues for depth perception EXCEPT:

In bright light, the iris_______and the pupil________to control the amount of light entering the eye.

Information picked up by the body’s receptor called is termed

The function of the lens is to:

Hearing aids are of no use to an individual with______deafness.

Information processed below the normal level of awareness is called

The idea that the amount of change in a stimulus necessary to produce a JND is a constant proportion of the stimulus intensity is called

Neural circuits of many sensory systems

Brain cells that analyze incoming sensory information into lines, angles, shading, and movement are called

Photoreceptors are the______sensitive cells that line the retina.

Differences thresholds:

Which sensory receptor is found in greatest numbers in the skin?

The tilt illusion, the luminance contrast effect and the color illusion are examples of what type of contrast effect?

Which TWO of the following statements are true of simultaneous contrast illusions?
1. In the simultaneous tilt illusion, vertical stripes appear tilted away from the tilt of their surrounding stripes.
2. In the luminance illusion, a grey patch appears darker when surrounded by a dark area than when surrounded by a light area.
3 A purple patch appears slightly closer to blue when surrounded by red, and closer to red when seen against a blue background.
4. Visual illusion effect only exist for motion.

Which of the following is NOT the case in terms of serial and parallel processing models?

When visual information out an object is perceived, which model of perceptual processing emphasizes on-going feedback between the higher centers of the brain(e.g.,cognition) and the early stages of processing (e.g.,sensory receptors)?

Which of the following is NOT an example of a genuine after-effect?

One of the following statements is FALSE-but which one?

Identify the FALSE statement about the neurons in are V1:

In conjuction search: