Illusions are:

Related Mcqs:

1. Hallucinations are different from illusions in that hallucinations are:

   A. Only found in hearing
   B. Non-shared perceptual distortions
   C. Shared by most people
   D. Only found in vision

2. 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

3. Optical illusions result from distortion in __________________?

   A. transudation
   B. sensation
   C. perception
   D. adaptation

4. 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

5. In what way (s) is the sense of taste like the sense of smell?

   A. There are four primary stimulus groups for both senses
   B. both systems are routed through the thalamus on the way to the cortex
   C. The physical stimuli for both senses are chemical substances dissolved in fluid
   D. All of the above

6. When travelling car, near objects seem to move past you faster than distant objects. This is called:

   A. aerial perspective
   B. linear perspective
   C. relative size
   D. relative motion

7. A psychophysicist would be most directly concerned with:

   A. What parts of the brain are used in speech production
   B. The relationship between the wavelength of light and the experience of color
   C. The effect of neurotransmitters on depression
   D. Our psychological reactions to physical stress

8. The absolute threshold for hearing is arbitrarily defined as zero:

   A. Wavelength
   B. Decibels
   C. Phonemes
   D. Hertz

9. As Babra drove down the highway, the pickets of the fences moved past her in a blur, but the mountains in the distance didn’t appear to move at all. Babra was experiencing:

   A. The binocular cue for depth called convergence
   B. The monocular cue for depth called linear perspective
   C. The pictorial cue for depth called texture gradient
   D. The monocular cue for depth called motion parallax

10. According to groundbreaking research, how do attentional processes affect perceptual processing of information?

    A. Attention create a parallel processing of all visual input
    B. All the visual stimuli fully processed and then attention acts on this information
    C. Attentional processes act early to select a small part of visual input to fully process
    D. Attention is not a critical component of the processing of visual information