A. Constancy
B. Simultaneous contrasts
C. Perceptual inference
D. Reversible figures
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - Although Sue Yen sees her chemistry professor several times a week, she didn’t recognize the professor when she saw her in the grocery store. This best illustrate the importance of:
A. Context effects
B. Perceptual adaptation
C. Proximity
D. Visual capture - Professor Vasquez believes that nearly all psychological disorders can ultimately be traced to abnormalities in brain chemistry, Professor Vasquez:
A. evolutionary perspective
B. biological perspective
C. humanistic perspective
D. cognitive perspective - A young man explained that he did poorly on his exam because his eyes hurt the test was unfair, and he did not feel the subject was important anyway. The young man is using what type of defense mechanism?
A. rationalization
B. fantasy
C. projection
D. displacement - Intra- sexual homicide (young men kill young men more than females kill females) would offer support for:
A. biological basis of aggression
B. adaptively basis of aggression
C. homicidal protest
D. media causes violence hypothesis - Watson trained Little Albert to fear a white rat. In his experiment the loud noise was a (n):
A. Unconditioned response
B. Conditioned stimulus
C. Conditioned response
D. Unconditioned stimulus - Phobias can be very debilitating and distressing phenomena. Which, if any, of the following statements are correct in relation to Watson and Rayner’s (1920) research into them?
1:Watson and Rayner speculated that the complexity of emotional responsiveness in adults might be explained by the conditioning of children’s simple emotional reactions when they are exposed to new stimuli
2:Watson and Rayner found evidence for emotional from a test trial in which the rat was accompanied by the noise
3:The fear reaction in Albert could be produced by a loud noise
4:None of the aboveA. 1 & 2
B. 1 & 3
C. 2 & 3
D. 4 - Watson and Rayner (1`920) conditioned “Little Albert’ to fear white rats by banging a hammer on a steel bar as the child played with a white rat. Later, it was discovered that Albert feared not only white rats but white stuffed toys and Santa’s beard as well. Albert’s fear of these other objects can be attributed to:
A. the law effect
B. stimulus generalization
C. stimulus discrimination
D. an overactive imagination - If the lateral hypothalamus is destroyed a rat will:
A. drink more water than biologically needed
B. refuse to drink until forced to do so
C. eat until it becomes obese
D. refuse to eat until force fed