A. Irregularities in the visual cortex
B. Nutritional or traumatic damage to the sensory nerves
C. Physical abnormalities in the structure of the eye
D. Defective processing of sensory information in the visual cortex
Related Mcqs:
- 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) - In farsightedness:
A. close objects are seen clearly but distant objects appear blurry
B. the focus of light from close objects falls behind the retina
C. the focus of light from distant objects falls a little short of the retina
D. a & b - The process of comparing currently experienced visual input with past visual memories takes place with ___________?
A. Broca’s area
B. the sensory cortex
C. association areas
D. the limbic system - The result of carefully controlled observations of clever Hans and his ability to solve math problems showed:
A. he could do math
B. he could add. but he could not subtract
C. he was cued by the owner looking up or down
D. none of these could be determined by observation - According to_____the ego is not merely the result of drive-reality conflict result too from the evolution of innate or autonomous functions:
A. Freud
B. Maslow
C. Miller
D. Heinz Hartmann - 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.
A. the what pathway, the where pathway
B. the where pathway; what pathway
C. the opponent process pathway; the trichromatic pathway
D. the trichromatic pathway; the opponent process pathway - The collection of rod and cone receptors that funnel signals to a particular visual cell in the retina make up that cell’s:
A. blind spot
B. optic disk
C. opponent process field
D. receptive field - When infants are placed in the middle of a visual cliff, they usually:
A. remain still
B. move to the shallow side of the apparatus
C. move to the deep side of the apparatus
D. approach their mothers when called, whether that requires moving to the shallow deep side - You parked your car in a large car park Monday morning. When you return to the car park Monday night, you have forgotten Fiesta in a large car park filled with green Volkswagens and red Fiestas, which type of visual search would you need to use?
A. Parallel search
B. Serial search
C. Conjunction search
D. Serial and conjunction - Which types of visual processing mechanisms involve memory, task-relevant knowledge, and personal goals?
A. Top-down
B. Bottom-up
C. Vertical
D. Horizontal
