Optical illusions result from distortion in __________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. 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

3. Illusions are:

   A. distortions of existing stimuli
   B. the same as hallucinations
   C. the result of innate mechanisms
   D. not based on external reality

4. 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

5. 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

6. A student who has never studied decides to try it and is delighted to receive a B on the exam rather than the usual D. The student starts studying more regularly as a result of __________________?

   A. classical conditioning
   B. habituation
   C. positive reinforcement
   D. b and c

7. A your high school reunion you cannot remember the last name of your class teacher. Your failure to remember is most likely the result of __________________?

   A. encoding failure
   B. storage failure
   C. retrieval failure
   D. state-dependent memory

8. Authorities feared that a certain event might result in a significant increase in Jerusalem Syndrome. What event was that?

   A. The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center
   B. The six Day War
   C. The start of the new Millennium
   D. The Yom Kippur War

9. Collection of observable evidence. precise definition and replication result all form the basis for:

   A. scientific observation
   B. the scientific method
   C. defining a scientific problem
   D. hypothesis generation

10. Studies of monkeys raised with artificial mothers suggest that mother-infant emotional bonds result primarily from mother providing infants with:

    A. the opportunity to explore
    B. body contact
    C. appropriate schemas
    D. adequate nourishment