The illusion of movement created by presenting visual stimuli in rapid succession is called:

Related Mcqs:

1. Sometimes the visual information available to us about a stimulus is ambiguous because of differences in depth, lighting or shading cues. For example, patterns of shading can create the illusion of objects as protruding from a visual field. How do we make sense of the visual information to recognize ambiguous stimuli?

   A. Visual system relies on other people’s Knowledge of objects to identify ambiguous stimuli
   B. Visual information about protruding objects is impossible to process
   C. Visual system relies on assumptions about the physical world to identify ambiguous stimuli
   D. Both (a) and (c)

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. 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

4. A psychologist watches the rapid eye movements of sleeping subjects and wakes them to find they report that they were dreaming. She concludes that dreams are linked to rapid eye movement. this conclusion is based on:

   A. pure speculation
   B. direct observation
   C. deduction from direct observation
   D. prior prediction

5. Consider this sequence: (1) food, (2) salivation with food (3) light with food, (4) salivation with light. This procedure for presenting stimuli and observing responses with dogs is based on Pavlov’s experiments, and represents which sequence of classical conditioning?

   A. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
   B. Conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
   C. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned response
   D. Unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response
   E. Conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, unconditioned stimulus

6. The illusion of the rat or the professor and the young lady or the old lady are both examples of what type of illusion?

   A. Constancy
   B. Simultaneous contrasts
   C. Perceptual inference
   D. Reversible figures

7. The tilt illusion, the luminance contrast effect and the color illusion are examples of what type of contrast effect?

   A. Before-effects
   B. After-effects
   C. Waterfall illusions
   D. Perceptual illusions

8. A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli is called _________________ memory?

   A. iconic
   B. implicit
   C. echoic
   D. flashbulb

9. The ability to focus on stimuli in which we are interested while resisting distracting stimuli is called ________________?

   A. concentrated attending
   B. stimulus focusing
   C. selective attention
   D. structured perceiving

10. The process of comparing currently experienced visual input with past visual memories takes place with ___________?

    A. Broca’s area
    B. the sensory cortex
    C. association areas
    D. the limbic system