Exam 4: C: Sensation and Perception

Regarding inattentional blindness,we are more likely to not perceive something when

Special effects for science fiction films create illusions of depth by quickly making the images of planets,starships,and monsters bigger or smaller.They are using the pictorial depth cue called

When older babies crawl off tables or beds,it is usually due to the babies' lack of

Regarding extrasensory perception,which of the following statements is FALSE?

The text suggests that enhanced perceptual accuracy would be achieved through

When six- to 14-month old infants are placed in the middle of a visual cliff,they usually

By looking out a window and moving your head from side to side,nearby objects appear to move a sizeable distance,while more distant objects appear to move only slightly.This demonstrates

Simons and Chabris showed participants a film of two basketball teams,one wearing black shirts and the other wearing white.Observers were asked to watch the film closely and count how many times a basketball passed between members of one of the teams,while ignoring the other team.As the observers watched and counted,a person wearing a gorilla suit walked into the middle of the basketball game,faced the camera,thumped its chest,and walked out of view.Which of the following occurred?

Which of the following illusions involves a horizontal line with arrowheads at each end that appears to be shorter than a horizontal line with open V's at each end of the line?

Which of the following occurrences do ESP researchers regard as evidence that parapsychological skills are very fragile,while ESP skeptics regard it as evidence that the ESP demonstration was just a run of luck?

In England,the drivers drive on the opposite side of the road than American drivers do on American roads.Therefore,Jeanie and the other American tourists,who are visiting England will need to be very careful crossing the streets of London since their tendency to look in the wrong direction to assess the traffic is caused by

You are walking on a graveled road.As you look down at your feet,you can make out the varied shapes,sizes,colors,and jagged edges of the rocks,but as you look at the road in the distance,the rocks appear smaller and smoother.This differing view of the rocks illustrates

If you stand in the middle of a cobblestone street,the street will look coarse near your feet and finer if you look into the distance.This is called

Humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow believed that some people perceive themselves and others with unusual accuracy.Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of these people?

Psychokinesis refers to the purported

You enter a class and sit by a student,who tells you that Dr.Martin is hard and boring and does not care whether the students learn or not.At the end of the lecture,a friend asks you about Dr.Martin's class,and you tell her that a student you met before class was "certainly right" about Dr.Martin.His lecture was boring,and he does not care about his students.Your friend replies that he was the "best professor" she ever had,that he graded fairly,told interesting stories,and was always willing to help the students after class.Your original view of the teacher was due to

A skeptic of psi abilities is one who

Which of the followng is best explained by the apparent-distance hypothesis?

Over 1.5 million ESP trials were recently conducted through the newspaper,radio,and television.The results indicated that

To accurately portray a gray automobile that appears in both sunshine and shadow,an artist would have to be aware of