The rubber-hand illusion best illustrates the importance of:

Related Mcqs:

1. The rubber-hand illusion best illustrates the importance of:

   A. feature detection
   B. blindsight
   C. top-down processing
   D. synesthesia

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. 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

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

5. 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

6. After she received a free hand- painted Christmas ornament from a religious organization, Mrs. Montevecchi felt obligated to mail a cash donation to the organization, Her response to the free gift best illustrates the impact of:

   A. the fundamental attribution error
   B. the just- world phenomenon
   C. the mere exposure effect
   D. the reciprocity norm

7. The fact that cultural groups with less exposure to carpentered buildings are less susceptible to the Muller-Lyer illusion suggests that:

   A. not all cultures test perceptual hypotheses
   B. people in technologically advanced cultures are more gullible
   C. optical illusions can be experienced only by cultures that have been exposed to the concept of optical illusions
   D. perceptual inferences can be shaped by experience

8. The Moon illusion can best be explained in terms of the relationship between:

   A. Selective attention and lightness constancy
   B. Perceived distance and perceived size
   C. Proximity and closure
   D. Atmospheric air pressure and diffusion of light waves

9. The moon illusion occurs when you:

   A. Look at the moon during a lunar eclipse
   B. Think you see the moon when in fact it is not there
   C. Perceive the moon to be the same size when viewed on the horizon and overhead
   D. Perceive the moon to be larger on the horizon than overhead

10. 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)