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:

Related Mcqs:

1. What would Gestalt psychologist say is reversing in a reversible figure, such as the vase-faces figure in your textbook?

   A. figure-ground relations
   B. perception of similarity
   C. good continuation
   D. border and texture

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

   A. perceptual constancy
   B. perceptual adaptation
   C. visual capture
   D. top-down processing

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

   A. transduction
   B. difference thresholds
   C. sensory adaption
   D. top-down processing

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

   A. Context effects
   B. Perceptual adaptation
   C. Proximity
   D. Visual capture

5. 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:

   A. Context effects
   B. Relative clarity
   C. Perceptual adaptation
   D. Visual capture

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

   A. perceptual constancy
   B. perceptual adaptation
   C. visual capture
   D. top-down processing

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

   A. Clouds in the sky
   B. Fish in the sea
   C. Rungs in ladder
   D. Words in a sentence

8. Because she is often rejected by her parents, Sally mistrusts other people and treats them with hostility, which leads to their rejection of her. The cycle of rejection, mistrust, hostility, and further rejection illustrate what is meant by:

   A. an external locus of control
   B. the self-serving phenomenon
   C. reaction formation
   D. reciprocal determinism

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

   A. The fact that perceptions are often reconstructions of events
   B. The low degree of accuracy of human psi phenomena
   C. Perceptual closure operating in a real life situation
   D. An “innocence of vision” in stressful situations

10. Figure is to ground as ______________ is to?

    A. form, substance
    B. up, down
    C. summer, winter
    D. moon, sky