Deck 2: Types of Seeing

Question 1

Staring, as lengthy or protracted looking, can consist of the accumulation of many _________________.

A) sessions of blinking
B) sessions of nonblinking
C) gazes and glances
D) ogling and overlooking

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What is the term for the act of looking for the purpose of identification or meaning of an object?

A) static peering
B) effective peering
C) active peering
D) fluid peering

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Peering is focused on ____________.

A) meaning
B) detail
C) identification
D) all of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Mutual peering includes __________________.

A) static
B) serial
C) dynamic
D) all of the above

Question 5

Detailed observation can distort our understanding of the functions or intentions originally invested into the objects we observe as proven in the example of _________________.

A) Rembrandt's portrait
B) Cezanne's painting
C) pyramid wall
D) all of the above

Question 6

Spectrograms are used for ________________.

A) speech recognition
B) speech therapy
C) identifying animal calls
D) all of the above

Question 7

Which of these animals are trichromats ?

A) honeybees
B) spotted hyenas
C) domesticated dogs
D) all of the above

Question 8

The German word umwelt means:

A) circumstances
B) Environments
C) visual thoughts
D) conditions

Question 9

Many birds have high-resolution stereo vision due to their ______________.

A) lack of eyelashes
B) increased number of color receptors in their retina
C) having two fovea in each eye
D) ability to see from several hundred feet in the air

Question 10

What is the best translation for the word taktisch?

A) Tacky
B) Tactile
C) Torque
D) Tausche

Question 11

The blind mite tries to attack food sources by __________________.

A) using echolocation
B) feeling vibrations in their legs
C) sensing butyric acid
D) all of the above

Question 12

What three sources can the heightened interest in synesthesia be traced to?

Question 13

Almost all current study of sight and touch is focused on _______ media

Question 14

Two forms of synesthesia recognized by neuroscience are:

Question 15

"Concrete counting" was introduced and presented as clay "bullae," which became the first surfaces that recorded _______.

Question 16

It is considered incomplete to write about sight without addressing _______

Question 17

Humans are _______, meaning we have three kinds of color receptor cells in our retinas that allow us to see all of the colors that we do.

Question 18

If it is true that aesthetic practices transcend human beings, give an example:

Question 19

What are photophores?

Question 20

Bioluminescent organs in deep-sea animals have at least a half-dozen functions. Name at least three.

Question 21

How has the internet changed the way we peer at paintings?

Question 22

Why does the Djedi Project at the Pyramid of Kheops raise ethical and religious questions?

Question 23

How is birdwatching a combination of both glimpsing and staring?

Question 24

How did Kandinsky describe his experience with color and synesthesia?

Question 25

Why is it possible that the Mantis Shrimp may see the three-dimensional world better than humans do?

Question 26

Explain the differences and similarities between staring, peering, glimpsing, and glancing. Give examples of each.

Question 27

Discuss the historical influences that led to the 21^st century popularity of the combination of senses in both science and art theory.

Question 28

How is camouflage a kind of mutual peering? In what ways is this evident in both nature, and man-made situations?

Question 29

Giving examples, describe how several animals' visual worlds differ from our own. How does our ability to see differ from theirs?

Question 30

Explain what the author meant in stating that "vision continues to be privileged in its ability to represent the other [senses]." Do you agree with this idea? Give examples to support your argument.

Question 31

Discuss the progression of how tactile objects lead to written language. Are there signs of these origins in our language today?