Deck 2: Perception T

Question 1

Bottom-up processing depends entirely on:

A) Quality of lighting
B) Quality of eyesight
C) External stimuli
D) Clarity of stimuli
E) Distance from stimuli

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Top-down processing depends on the individual's:

A) Quality of eyesight
B) Knowledge and expectations
C) Size of brain
D) General intelligence
E) Distance from stimuli

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Key factors in Gibson's theory include:

A) Affordances about objects
B) None of these
C) Optic flow patterns giving motion information
D) Resonance of invariant information
E) All of these

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Key factors in Gregory's theory include:

A) All of these
B) Perceptual errors due to inaccurate observers' hypotheses
C) A purely sensory process
D) A passive process gathering visual information
E) None of these

Question 5

Neisser's cyclic theory combining aspects of Gibson's and Gregory's theories is criticised because it:

A) Is a cognitive theory
B) Combines other people's theories
C) Is vague and hard to test
D) All of these
E) None of these

Question 6

The visual cliff test shows some depth perception is achieved at about:

A) 6 weeks
B) 8 weeks
C) 2 months
D) 4 months
E) 6 months

Question 7

The development of visual constancies is likely to depend on infants' experience and:

A) Maturational factors
B) Age in months
C) Age in years
D) Quality of eyesight
E) Environmental factors

Question 8

The importance of environmental factors in producing the horizontal-vertical and rotating trapezoidal window illusions is down to:

A) Parental factors
B) Genetic factors
C) Birth experiences
D) Dietary factors
E) Environmental factors

Question 9

Colour vision and binocular vision develop:

A) After several weeks post-birth
B) Immediately after birth
C) In the weeks before birth
D) After 6 months of age
E) During the birth process

Question 10

The importance of early visual experiences for developing complex perceptual skills is shown by people who have had:

A) Cataracts removed at an early age
B) Colour blindness from birth
C) Colour blindness develop at primary school age
D) Perfect vision from birth
E) Problems with colour vision

Question 11

The ability for perceptual learning is demonstrated by the:

A) Rapid adjustment to moving into dim light
B) Rapid adjustment to wearing inverted lenses
C) Rapid learning of new faces
D) Rapid learning of new locations
E) Ability to map-read

Question 12

The ability to make sense of what we see is dependent on:

A) Nature and nurture/environment combined
B) Nature not nurture/environment
C) Nature i.e. genes alone
D) Environment/nurture, e.g. culture
E) Genes and culture

Question 13

Infants' preference for faces is difficult to research because they:

A) Have such small eyes
B) Have such small faces
C) Cannot speak to us
D) Have brains that are still developing
E) Are still forming neural connections

Question 14

Gregor and McPherson's (1965) research suggests that cross-cultural differences in visual illusions could depend more on:

A) Nature: the group's genes
B) The group's physical environment than on training and education
C) Training and education alone
D) The group's physical environment alone
E) Training and education than on the group's physical environment

Question 15

The perceptual problem with prosopagnosics is that they have:

A) Greatly impaired face recognition and object recognition
B) Greatly impaired face recognition but their object recognition is usually quite good
C) Greatly impaired object recognition but their face recognition is usually quite good
D) Slightly impaired face recognition but their object recognition is good
E) Slightly impaired face and object recognition

Question 16

The involvement of the fusiform brain area in processing face information is supported by:

A) One or two research studies
B) A number of research studies
C) A minority of research studies
D) The majority of research studies
E) Theory but no research studies

Question 17

Bruce and Young's (1986) eight components of face recognition include:

A) Structural encoding, facial speech analysis, face recognition nodes, and name generation
B) Expression nodes, facial speech analysis, face recognition nodes, and name generation
C) Structural nodes, facial speech analysis, face recognition analysis, and directed visual analysis
D) Structural nodes, facial speech analysis, face recognition nodes, and name generation
E) Structural encoding, facial speech analysis, face recognition nodes, and name analysis

Question 18

Duchaine and Nakayama's (2006) model simplified the process of face recognition into face detection, structural encoding, face memory, and:

A) Emotion, gender, and name analysis
B) Name generation and emotion
C) Emotion and visual analysis
D) Emotion, expression, gender, etc
E) Face and name analysis

Question 19

Apperceptive agnosia is a problem with object recognition caused by:

A) Impairments with eyesight
B) Difficulties accessing semantic knowledge
C) Memory impairment
D) Maladaptive speech
E) Perceptual processing impairment

Question 20

Associative agnosia is a problem with object recognition caused by:

A) Perceptual processing impairment
B) Difficulties accessing semantic knowledge
C) Maladaptive long-term memory
D) Maladaptive speech
E) Impairments with eyesight