A. good continuation
B. closure
C. proximity
D. None of these
Related Mcqs:
- The tendency to organize stimuli into smooth, uninterrupted patterns is called _________________?
A. closure
B. continuity
C. similarity
D. proximity - 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 - Sometimes the visual information available to us about a stimulus is ambiguous because of differences in depth, lighting or shading cues. For example, patterns of shading can create the illusion of objects as protruding from a visual field. How do we make sense of the visual information to recognize ambiguous stimuli?
A. Visual system relies on other people’s Knowledge of objects to identify ambiguous stimuli
B. Visual information about protruding objects is impossible to process
C. Visual system relies on assumptions about the physical world to identify ambiguous stimuli
D. Both (a) and (c) - The ability to focus on stimuli in which we are interested while resisting distracting stimuli is called ________________?
A. concentrated attending
B. stimulus focusing
C. selective attention
D. structured perceiving - The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as _________________?
A. Weber’s law
B. the opponent-process theory
C. feature detection
D. the difference threshold - As we move, viewed objects cast changing shapes on our retinas, although we do not perceive the objects as changing. This is part of the phenomenon of _________________?
A. perceptual consistency
B. relative motion
C. linear perspective
D. continuity - A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli is called _________________ memory?
A. iconic
B. implicit
C. echoic
D. flashbulb - In general, people attach concepts and attributes to items and events. This knowledge is used to categorize and understand new stimuli and is best known as a person’s ___________________?
A. algorithm
B. heuristic
C. schema
D. mental set - The view that we are born with the ability to perceive the way we do it held by___________?
A. Sensory psychologists
B. Nativists
C. Empiricists
D. Contemporary psychologists - Gestaltists refer to the fact that we perceive smooth flowing forms more readily than discrete forms as ______________?
A. similarity
B. symmetry
C. holistic perception
D. continuity
