A. Only found in hearing
B. Non-shared perceptual distortions
C. Shared by most people
D. Only found in vision
Related Mcqs:
- Illusions are:
A. distortions of existing stimuli
B. the same as hallucinations
C. the result of innate mechanisms
D. not based on external reality - 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 - Optical illusions result from distortion in __________________?
A. transudation
B. sensation
C. perception
D. adaptation - Movement illusions such as the moon-cloud illusion, in which the moon appears to race from cloud to cloud, illustrate the role in visual perception played by ______________?
A. binocular disparity
B. a frame of reference
C. a linear perspective
D. bottom-up processing - Which of the senses foes the majority of hallucinations occur in?
A. sight
B. smell
C. hearing
D. taste - Severe depression accompanied by hallucinations and delusions are symptoms of which of these?
A. Psychotic depression
B. Major depression
C. Dysthymia
D. Bipolar disorder - Which drug has provided the most help to schizophrenia patients experiencing auditory hallucinations and paranoia?
A. Ativan
B. Xanax
C. Thorazine
D. lithium - Retreat from reality by hallucinations and delusions and by social withdrawal typically characterizes:
A. somatoform disorders
B. anxiety disorders
C. psychotic disorders
D. personality disorders - An experimenter conducts an experiments on the effects of a drug to control hallucinations. He declares the results to be “statistically significant,’ which usually means that:
A. even though appropriate statistics were used, no differences could be detected between experimental and control groups
B. the results have important implications for theory or practice
C. differences between experimental and control group of this size occur by chance only 5 times out of 100 (or less)
D. differences between experimental and control groups were so large they could never occur by chance alone - The experience of auditory hallucinations by people with schizophrenia is most closely linked with the activation of areas in their:
A. frontal lobes
B. motor cortex
C. hypothalamus
D. temporal lobes
