The visual cliff experiment was design to test:

Related Mcqs:

1. Gibson and Walk used a ‘visual cliff’ experiment to study ______________?

   A. figure-ground discrimination
   B. depth perception
   C. feature detection
   D. signal detection theory

2. 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)

3. Which of the following depth cues creates the impression of visual cliff?

   A. interposition
   B. relative height
   C. linear perspective
   D. texture gradient

4. When infants are placed in the middle of a visual cliff, they usually:

   A. remain still
   B. move to the shallow side of the apparatus
   C. move to the deep side of the apparatus
   D. approach their mothers when called, whether that requires moving to the shallow deep side

5. An experiment is performed to test the effects of sleep deprivation on rote memory. In this experiment, the dependent variable in the:

   A. number of hours subjects go without sleep
   B. rote memory scores
   C. number of subjects deprived of sleep in the experimental group
   D. correlation between hours of sleep and fatigue

6. 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

7. In an experiment studying the effects of different drugs on reaction time, each subject is presented with all of the conditions in the experiment. This is an example of ____________?

   A. factorial design
   B. within subjects design
   C. between subjects design
   D. quasi-experimental design

8. If someone already spreads the rumor about an experiment for being assessment of racist attitudes and the subjects then take care of not showing racist attitudes. The result of experiment will be __________?

   A. invalid
   B. biased
   C. error
   D. unreliable

9. Dr. Jamshed wants to see if person’s IQ changes as they get older. To do this he takes three groups of subjects. Group i is made up of 10 years old, and Group III of 25 years old. Dr. Jamshed tests all three groups of their IQ level. The design of this experiment is called:

   A. longitudinal study
   B. more information is needed to determine the design of the experiment
   C. Gesell’s dome
   D. cross sectional study

10. A between subjects design is less efficient than a within subjects design because ____________?

    A. it has more subjects
    B. it has less validity
    C. it is less reliable
    D. it must deal with difference among subjects
    E. None of these