The fact that a pinpoint down the railroad track is perceived by a person as a diesel engine is an example of ________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Events that occur close together in space or time are generally perceived as belonging together. Gestalt psychologists refer to this as ________________?

   A. proximity
   B. closure
   C. similarity
   D. continuity

2. Teacher carefully monitors and records the behaviors of children on school playgrounds in order to track the developmental of their physical skills. He is most clearly engaged in ___________?

   A. survey research
   B. naturalistic observation
   C. experimentation
   D. replication

3. Which of the following explains why cartoons are not perceived as a series of still frames?

   A. Autokinetic effect
   B. Motion parallax
   C. the phi phenomenon
   D. The Muller-Lyer illusion

4. The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as _________________?

   A. Weber’s law
   B. the opponent-process theory
   C. feature detection
   D. the difference threshold

5. If two objects are assumed to be the same size, the object that casts the smaller retinal image is perceived to be _______________?

   A. more coarsely textured
   B. less hazy
   C. more distant
   D. closer

6. The Ponzo illusion illustrates that people judge the size of an object in terms of its perceived _______________?

   A. shape
   B. height
   C. distance
   D. convergence

7. The visually perceived distance between ourselves and an object provides an important cue for our perception of the object’s:

   A. motion
   B. size
   C. color
   D. brightness

8. Almost half the birds in the yard were brown cardinals and the rest were bright red cardinals, so Jimmy perceived them as two distinct groups of birds. This best illustrate the principle of:

   A. Proximity
   B. Relative clarity
   C. Similarity
   D. Connectedness

9. Babar was at a football game, and even though people wearing green jackets were spread fairly evenly throughout the stands, he still perceived all the people in green jackets as a single group of visiting fans. Babar’s perception is most consistent with the Gestalt principle of:

   A. Constancy
   B. Similarity
   C. Closure
   D. Proximity

10. When visual information out an object is perceived, which model of perceptual processing emphasizes on-going feedback between the higher centers of the brain(e.g., cognition) and the early stages of processing (e.g., sensory receptors)?

    A. Recurrent processing model
    B. Serial processing model
    C. Parallel processing model
    D. Selective adaptation model