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In top-down processing of information, individual features are analyzed and assembled into a meaningful whole. T or F?
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F
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Selective attention is promoted by all but one of the following. Which does not fit?
a. habituation b. contrast c. change d. intensity |
a
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The occurrence of an orientation response shows that habituation is complete. T or F?
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F
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Changes in brain waves and increased blood flow to the head are part of an OR. T or F?
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T
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Research shows that positive emotions can broaden the “attentional spotlight.” T or F?
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T
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The first and most basic perceptual organization to emerge when sight is restored to a blind person is:
a. continuity b. nearness constancy c. recognition of numbers and letters d. figure-ground |
d
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# Gestalt principles offer us some basic "plans" for organizing parts of our day-today perceptions in top-down fashion. T or F?
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T
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At times, meaningful perceptual organization represents a __________________________ , or "guess," held until the evidence contradicts it.
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hypothesis
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The design known as Necker’s cube is a good example of an impossible figure. T or F?
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F
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Which among the following are subject to basic perceptual constancy?
a. figure-ground organization b. size c. ambiguity d. brightness e. continuity f. closure g. shape h. nearness |
b, d, g
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The visual cliff is used to test for infant sensitivity to linear perspective. T or F?
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F
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Write an M or a B after each of the following to indicate if it is a monocular or binocular depth cue.
accommodation _____ convergence _____ retinal disparity _____ linear perspective _____ motion parallax _____ overlap _____ relative size _____ |
accommodation (M), convergence (B), retinal disparity (B), linear perspective (M), motion parallax (M), overlap (M), relative size (M)
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# Which of the depth cues listed in question 2 are based on muscular feedback? _____.
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accommodation or convergence
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Interpretation of pictorial depth cues requires no prior experience T or F?.
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F
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The apparent distance hypothesis provides a good explanation of the
a. moon illusion b. horizontal-vertical illusion c. Zulu illusion d. effects of inattentional blindness |
a
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Perceptual habits may become so ingrained that they lead us to misperceive a stimulus. T or F?
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T
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The Ames room is used to test for adaptation to inverted vision T or F?.
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F
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Perceptual learning seems to program the brain for sensitivity to important _____of the environment.
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features
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An important factor in adaptation to inverted vision is
a. learning new categories b. active movement c. overcoming illusions d. the horizontal-vertical invariance |
b
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Reality testing can be used to distinguish hallucinations and illusions. T or F?
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T
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Size-distance relationships appear to underlie which two illusions? _______ and _____
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moon illusion, Müller-Lyer illusion
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When a person is prepared to perceive events in a particular way, it is said that a perceptual expectancy or _____ exists.
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set
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Four purported psi events investigated by parapsychologists are clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition, and ______.
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psychokinesis
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Zener cards were used in early studies of
a. psi phenomena b. inattentional blindness c. the Müller-Lyer illusion d. top-down processing |
a
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# Natural, or “real-life,” occurrences are regarded as the best evidence for the existence of ESP. T or F?
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F
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Replication rates are very high for ESP experiments. T or F?
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F
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# Skeptics attribute positive results in psi experiments to statistical runs of luck. T or F?
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T
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