A. Depth perception
B. Illusion
C. Delusion
D. None of these
Related Mcqs:
- The view that we are born with the ability to perceive the way we do it held by___________?
A. Sensory psychologists
B. Nativists
C. Empiricists
D. Contemporary psychologists - Which of the following is true of personal construct theory? 1: George Kelly developed personal construct theory to examine how individuals view the world. 2: Personal construct theory portrays people as victims of unconscious desires and impulses. 3: Personal construct theory does not try to locate the individual on the personality theorists, dimensions. 4: Kelly basically took the view that we are all artists.
A. 1 & 2
B. 3 & 4
C. 1 & 3
D. 2 & 4 - Those who view their work as a necessary but personally unfulfilling way to make money are said to view work as a:
A. contract
B. job
C. career
D. calling - The tendency to perceive continuous patterns in stimuli is known as _________________?
A. good continuation
B. closure
C. proximity
D. None of these - Gestaltists refer to the fact that we perceive smooth flowing forms more readily than discrete forms as ______________?
A. similarity
B. symmetry
C. holistic perception
D. continuity - Only when experimental participants were informed that a women was raped did they perceive the women’s behavior as inviting rape> This best illustrates that victim- blaming is fueled by:
A. deindividuation
B. the bystander effect
C. the mere exposure effect
D. hindsight bias - If the human eye was not responsive to differences in the wavelength of light, we would not be able to perceive differences in:
A. Intensity
B. Color
C. Purity
D. Brightness - The light around the movie marquee flashed on-and-off in succession However, Jamil did not perceive them as separate lights flashing, but instead saw a continuous band of light moving around the edge of the marquee. Jamil’s perception illustrates:
A. Feature detection.
B. Bottom-up processing
C. Pre-attentive processing
D. The phi phenomenon - It has been suggested that Alaskan Eskimos’ rich vocabulary for describing snow enables them to perceive differences in snow conditions that would otherwise go unnoticed. This suggestion most clearly illustrates:
A. belief perseverance
B. the farming effect
C. the representativeness heuristic
D. linguistic determinism - You have a pair of pilers and a bag of nuts in the shell. You are lamenting the fact that you can’t shell the nuts because you do not have a nutcracker. Your inability to perceive the pilers as a makeshift nutcracker demonstrates_______on your part.
A. functional fixedness
B. inductive reasoning
C. heuristic reasoning
D. insight insufficiency
