A. After running your fingers over fine sandpaper, medium sandpaper feels coarser (and vice versa)
B. After listening to a high tone for a while, a medium auditory tone appears higher
C. Holding your hand under running cold (or hot) water before testing the temperature of baby’s bath water will lead you to misperceive how comfortable the water will be for the baby
D. After eating chocolate, orange juice tastes more tart
Related Mcqs:
- The tilt illusion, the luminance contrast effect and the color illusion are examples of what type of contrast effect?
A. Before-effects
B. After-effects
C. Waterfall illusions
D. Perceptual illusions - Which TWO of the following statements are true of simultaneous contrast illusions? 1. In the simultaneous tilt illusion, vertical stripes appear tilted away from the tilt of their surrounding stripes. 2. In the luminance illusion, a grey patch appears darker when surrounded by a dark area than when surrounded by a light area. 3 A purple patch appears slightly closer to blue when surrounded by red, and closer to red when seen against a blue background. 4. Visual illusion effect only exist for motion.
A. 1 & 3
B. 2 & 3
C. 3 & 4
D. 2 & 4 - Which TWO of the following are true of the learning set procedure?
1:The animals learns to focus on classes of cues that are inaccurate predictors of reward
2:In the win-stay, lose-shift strategy, the animal learns to persist with a choice that yields food, but shift to the other object if it does not
3:In the learning-set procedure, all stimuli and associations have equal effect on the animal’s behaviour
4:The occurrence of reward can be regarded as a stimulus that can enter into associations or acquire discriminative control over an instrumental actionA. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 1 & 3
D. 2 & 4 - Which of the following is closely associated with the effectiveness of the law of effect:
A. Learning
B. Stimulus
C. Responses
D. Sensation - Phobias are now sometimes treated with benzodiazepines (rather than barbiturates). Which of the following is not a side – effect of taking benzodiazepines?
A. Ataxia
B. Wakefulness
C. Drowsiness
D. confusion - Destroying a piece of brain tissue to observe its effect on behavior is referred to as which of the following?
A. tumor ligation
B. lesioning
C. electrical stimulation
D. stereotaxic inversion - The McGurk effect best illustrates:
A. Color constancy
B. Sensory interaction
C. The rubber-hand illusion
D. Phantom limb sensations - In experiments, an image is quickly flashed and then replaced by a “masking” stimulus that inhibits conscious perception of the original image. In these experiments, the researchers are studying the effect of:
A. Tinnitus
B. Accommodation
C. Blindsight
D. Priming - The cocktail party effect provides an example of:
A. Selective attention
B. The phi phenomenon
C. Stroboscopic movement
D. Perceptual constancy - When two groups of participants were each shown a different set of results based on a experiment with rats, both groups reported that the results shown to them were obvious outcomes. This suggests that sometimes things appear to be more obvious than they should. Which cognitive phenomenon can explain this effect?
A. Hindsight bias
B. Intuition
C. Availability heuristic
D. Conditional reasoning
