Exam 5: Perception

Some insects have body markings that help to conceal them from predators that tend to see various parts of the insect's body as an extension of the twig on which it stands. According to gestalt psychologists, which grouping factor of perceptual organization accounts for this?

Students working on an experiment with rats tend to see the following figure as that of a rat, while physicians working on a geriatric ward tend to see the figure as that of an old man with glasses. Primarily what does this difference in perception demonstrate?

Which of the following best describes the phenomenon of motion parallax?

What would a white spot on the side of an otherwise black dog be perceived as?

Mavis is painting a still life of a bowl of fruit. What should Mavis do if she wants to use interposition to indicate that the apples are closer to the viewer than the oranges?

A number of intrepid experimenters had themselves injected with drugs that caused a temporary paralysis of the eye muscles. Just as the so-called canceling-out theory would predict, whenever they tried to move their eyes, the world __________.

You are shown the character "1." When presented in the figure 2,134, you call it a "one"; when it is presented in the word "lift" you call it the letter "L." Why do you perceive it differently across the two situations when the actual character has not changed?

What is suggested by research in which participants are asked to take part in a dichotic listening test, in which different stimuli are delivered to each ear?

What is true of reversible figure-ground patterns?

Most of us see the following figure as rows instead of columns. Which gestalt grouping factor of perceptual organization is represented here?

A higher-order invariant relationship is a relationship between two or more stimuli that __________.

Which of the following is a cue for depth?

A professor constructs a device for sorting handwritten zip codes that determines whether a line segment is straight or curved, its angle, and whether that line segment intersects with other line segments. What would this device be based on?

When you first look at a certain painting by Salvador Dalí, you see an archway filled with people fighting. But when you look a bit longer, the archway seems to become a horse and many of the people become textures in the landscape. As you continue to look, your perception keeps flip-flopping. This phenomenon, known as a "reversible image," exemplifies which general principle about human perception?

Mondegreens are __________.

What should you see as you look out the window on a moving train?

All of the following provide cues for the detection of depth except __________.

Which of the following statements is false?

In a dark room, all that is visible is a luminous triangle surrounding a luminous dot. What will happen as the triangle is moved upward?

Which of the following best illustrates induced motion?