Question 1

According to Hubel and Wiesel's research, the

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A)   map of the retina that appears on the primary visual cortex is like a mosaic of tiny modules.
B)   regions of the retina correspond to inverted regions of the primary visual cortex.
C)   visual cortex is a point-by-point representation of the retina.
D)   retina is modeled by the visual cortex.
E)   levels of the visual association cortex are spread between the occipital, temporal and parietal lobes.F) None of the above
G) All of the above

Question 2

Does the language you speak determine the colour you see?

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Question 3

Wild animals often "freeze"their positions when they are startled. That is, they do not move. Freezing often makes these animals very difficult to see, a strategy that has confounded many a hunter. This behaviour seems to work against the Gestalt law of

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A)   good continuation.
B)   common fate.
C)   similarity.
D)   proximity.
E)   closure.F) B) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 4

The fact that an object will appear closer the more coarse its surface, is due to the monocular cue of

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A)   linear perspective.
B)   texture.
C)   shading.
D)   interposition.
E)   retinal disparity.F) None of the above
G) B) and C)

Question 5

Bushara and colleagues studied the combining of visual and auditory location abilities. Subjects who heard a crashing sound when two moving lines met were more likely to report that the lines

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A)   were scraping the sides of the viewing screen.
B)   were passing smoothly through each other.
C)   were disintegrating.
D)   were colliding then bouncing back from each other.
E)   were colliding then passing through each other.F) None of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 6

Which of the following does NOT occur on the dorsal stream of the visual association cortex?

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A)   perception of movement
B)   akinetopsia
C)   cerebral achromatopsia
D)   perception of spatial location
E)   control of eye movementsF) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

Question 7

Which monocular cue to depth perception depends on our own movement?

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A)   linear perspective
B)   elevation
C)   interposition
D)   convergence
E)   motion parallaxF) None of the above
G) C) and D)

Question 8

__________ is to focal colour as __________ is to nonfocal colour.

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A)   Peach; orange
B)   Green; magenta
C)   Yellow; purple
D)   Turquoise; cranberry
E)   Hazel; blueF) None of the above
G) A) and C)

Question 9

Objects nearest the horizon line are seen as farther away in the monocular cue of

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A)   shading.
B)   haze.
C)   texture.
D)   elevation.
E)   convergence.F) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 10

Supposing that when you look at a short wooden post in front of you and a tree 200 meters away, the images that fall on your retina are the same size for both objects. You can tell which object is more distant because of the changing angle between your eyes as you focus on each one. This is the binocular cue of

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A)   conjugation.
B)   convergence.
C)   retinal disparity.
D)   stereopsis.
E)   divergence.F) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

Question 11

The top of a convex or bulging item appears light coloured while the bottom appears darker. Thus, our visual system appears to interpret such stimuli as if they were illuminated from directly above. The cue to depth that seems to be at work in this context is

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A)   shading.
B)   haze.
C)   texture.
D)   elevation.
E)   convergence.F) C) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 12

Clinical findings with those who have visual agnosia suggest that the phenomenon of "form from motion"involves brain mechanisms for movement perception rather than object perception.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

When Roberson and colleagues asked English and Berinmo speakers to pick out the colour that was different from three coloured cards, they found that each group could distinguish

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A)   the same colour categories despite their linguistic differences.
B)   only the differences between focal colours.
C)   colours related to their own linguistic colour categories most easily.
D)   colours related to the other culture's linguistic colour categories most easily.
E)   focal from non-focal colours.F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 14

Psychologists consider the images that fall on the retina as __________ stimuli and the stimulation produced within the remainder of the visual system as __________ stimuli.

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A)   proximal; distal
B)   distal; proximal
C)   monocular; binocular
D)   binocular; monocular
E)   dorsal; ventralF) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 15

If a person with visual agnosia cannot recognize friends' faces or bodies but can recognize them from their movements. This is an example of

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A)   spatial location.
B)   extrastriate body perception.
C)   form from motion.
D)   figure-ground contrast.
E)   illusory contours.F) D) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 16

What are the monocular cues to depth perception? Describe and give four examples.

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Question 17

The PPA (parahippocampal place area)  is activated by

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A)   changes in spatial location.
B)   facial stimuli.
C)   visual scenes.
D)   forms resembling the human body.
E)   forms in motion.F) B) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 18

Recognition of objects can be aided by

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A)   increasing the number of items being viewed.
B)   adding contextual cues.
C)   increasing the speed of scanning the scene in which the object has been placed.
D)   using regular laboratory instruments as target stimuli.
E)   using novel stimuli, unknown to the subject.F) B) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 19

We become aware of the process of visual perception

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A)   before the process is initiated.
B)   during the process.
C)   only after the process is complete.
D)   only if we stop and think about what we are perceiving while the process is ongoing.
E)   when we recall it from long-term memory.F) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 20

The FFA is a region of the ventral stream specialized in perceiving

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A)   changes in spatial location.
B)   facial stimuli.
C)   visual scenes.
D)   forms resembling the human body.
E)   forms in motion.F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

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Clinical findings with those who have visual agnosia suggest that the phenomenon of "form from motion"involves brain mechanisms for movement perception rather than object perception.

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When Roberson and colleagues asked English and Berinmo speakers to pick out the colour that was different from three coloured cards, they found that each group could distinguish

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Objects nearest the horizon line are seen as farther away in the monocular cue of

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Which monocular cue to depth perception depends on our own movement?

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According to Hubel and Wiesel's research, the

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Which of the following does NOT occur on the dorsal stream of the visual association cortex?

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Does the language you speak determine the colour you see?

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Bushara and colleagues studied the combining of visual and auditory location abilities. Subjects who heard a crashing sound when two moving lines met were more likely to report that the lines

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Psychologists consider the images that fall on the retina as stimuli and the stimulation produced within the remainder of the visual system as stimuli.

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The top of a convex or bulging item appears light coloured while the bottom appears darker. Thus, our visual system appears to interpret such stimuli as if they were illuminated from directly above. The cue to depth that seems to be at work in this context is

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Recognition of objects can be aided by

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is to focal colour as is to nonfocal colour.

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Wild animals often "freeze"their positions when they are startled. That is, they do not move. Freezing often makes these animals very difficult to see, a strategy that has confounded many a hunter. This behaviour seems to work against the Gestalt law of

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The PPA (parahippocampal place area) is activated by

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Clinical findings with those who have visual agnosia suggest that the phenomenon of "form from motion"involves brain mechanisms for movement perception rather than object perception.

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Objects nearest the horizon line are seen as farther away in the monocular cue of

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Which of the following does NOT occur on the dorsal stream of the visual association cortex?

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