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Question 1:

What is perception?
a) The ability to store information in memory
b) The process of giving information meaning
c) The process of changing information into a neural impulse
d) The ability to select one message amongst numerous messages

Question 2:

John was unable to identify the fork that was at the table in front of him, but after it was placed directly in his hand he knew instantly that it was indeed a fork. Which condition does John likely have?
a) Alzheimer’s disease
b) Broca’s aphasia
c) Visual agnosia
d) Blindsight

Question 3:

What controls the pupil size?
a) Fovea
b) Lens
c) Retina
d) Iris

Question 4:

Achromatopsia refers to a deficiency in perception of ________.
a) space
b) colour
c) motion
d) faces

Question 5:

According to Gibson’s theory of ecological optics, when looking at your environment, you can observe a number of affordances that help guide perception. Which of the following is NOT one of those affordances?
a) Gradient of texture density
b) Topological breakage
c) Principle of simplicity
d) Scatter-reflection

Question 6:

Which theory of perception involves three-dimensional geons that are combined to form objects?
a) Recognition by components (RBC)
b) Feature integration theory (FIT)
c) Pandemonium model of perception
d) Parallel distributed processing model

Question 7:

What does the fcat taht you can raed tihs snetecne desrtomnate?
a) The jumbled word effect
b) That context influences perception
c) That top-down processing influences perception
d) All of the above

Question 8:

Why is Purves and Lotto’s empirical theory of colour vision important?
a) It shows that colours are only perceived based on the wavelengths of their light.
b) It shows that prior experience and context can influence how we perceive colours.
c) It shows that recognition by components theory accounts for colour perception.
d) It shows that top-down processing is incapable of modifying objective perceptions.

Question 9:

Imagine you were watching an online newscast and you felt like you perceived the word “date,” but the newscaster was talking about something to do with bait and gates. What did you experience?
a) The transient speech effect
b) An echo
c) The word superiority effect
d) The McGurk effect

Question 10:

Which of Katz’s basic principles of organization groups together visual elements that are close to one another?
a) Principle of proximity
b) Principle of parallelism
c) Principle of symmetry
d) Principle of similarity

Question 11:

Which area of the retina is densely packed with photoreceptors?
a) Retinotopic area
b) Fovea
c) Cornea
d) Optic nerve

Question 12:

Pashler, Johnston and Ruthruff (2001) suggest that perception is a result of ________.
a) bottom-up influences
b) top-down influences
c) both bottom-up and top-down influences
d) neither bottom-up nor top-down influences

Question 13:

The temporal cortex is NOT involved in recognizing ________.
a) the orientation of line segments
b) places
c) faces
d) body parts

Question 14:

The inability to reach for objects is known as ________ and is a result of damage to the ________ visual pathway.
a) visual agnosia; ventral
b) optic ataxia; ventral
c) visual agnosia; dorsal
d) optic ataxia; dorsal

Question 15:

In Hintzman’s multiple-trace memory model, a memory trace in secondary memory is activated if it is similar to ________.
a) an echo
b) a percept
c) a probe
d) a prototype

Question 16:

Which of the following is NOT a theory of pattern recognition discussed in the textbook?
a) Feature detection theory
b) Recognition by components theory
c) Template matching theory
d) Theory of ecological optics

Question 17:

It is estimated that a feedforward sweep of information from the primary visual cortex down the ventral and dorsal pathways takes about ________.
a) 1 millisecond
b) 10 milliseconds
c) 100 milliseconds
d) 1000 milliseconds

Question 18:

According to Biederman’s recognition by components theory, a critical part of object recognition is ________.
a) matching the object to a geon template
b) deconstructing the object into its constituent geons
c) comparing the object to a memory trace echo of geons
d) having fewer geons to speed up processing of the object

Question 19:

Consider the following scenario: you are viewing a painting of a forest scene, which contains trees and large rocks, but you perceive there to be human faces as well, when in fact there are no human faces in the painting. Which Gestalt principle would most likely account for your perception of human faces when none actually exist in the viewed painting?
a) Principle of similarity
b) Principle of proximity
c) Principle of symmetry
d) Principle of experience

Question 20:

In the study by Witt and Proffitt (2005), it was noted that the perceived size of a baseball was positively correlated with batting average. What is the general conclusion that can be drawn from this?
a) Perception was influenced by context.
b) Perception was not influenced by context.
c) It supports the principle of common movement.
d) It supports the principle of experience.

Question 21:

Historically, the study of perception has taken multimodal sensory experience into account.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

Subjective-distance theory can account for why the moon seems bigger when it is closer to the horizon and smaller when it is high in the sky.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

Our hearing can influence our perception of flavor.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

Another name for “motion blindness” is “akinetopsia.”
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

The visual prepotency effect suggests that our visual system is not as effective as hearing and touch in processing alerting stimuli.
a) True
b) False

Question 26:

Features with low contrast energy tend to be squelched by the visual system.
a) True
b) False

Question 27:

The Gestalt approach to perception is best described as atomistic.
a) True
b) False

Question 28:

If an individual had visual agnosia, you would expect damage to the dorsal pathway.
a) True
b) False

Question 29:

Information about the edges of objects is obtained from topological breakage.
a) True
b) False

Question 30:

The first structure of the eye that light passes through is the pupil.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Cognition, Sixth Edition: Chapter 03