What is it called when light rays impact our visual system?

Related Mcqs:

1. What is it called when light rays impact our visual system?

   A. Perception
   B. Recognition
   C. Sensation
   D. Identification

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. The perception of a humanlike face in the random configurations of the lunar landscape best illustrates the impact of______on visual perception.

   A. Perceptual schemas
   B. Relative clarity
   C. Shape constancy
   D. Stroboscopic movement

4. 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

5. 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

6. The light around the movie marquee flashed on-and-off in succession However, Jamil did not perceive them as separate lights flashing, but instead saw a continuous band of light moving around the edge of the marquee. Jamil’s perception illustrates:

   A. Feature detection.
   B. Bottom-up processing
   C. Pre-attentive processing
   D. The phi phenomenon

7. In bright light, the iris_______and the pupil________to control the amount of light entering the eye.

   A. Expands; constricts
   B. Constricts; expands
   C. Focuses; constricts
   D. Constricts; focuses

8. Kim is trying to thread a needle, but the light is fairly dim. Due to the lack of light, the part of her eye that will help most in threading the needle is ________________?

   A. cones
   B. rods
   C. lens
   D. cornea

9. 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

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

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