Question 1

Describe how an artist might make use of the monocular cues for depth perception to create a three-dimensional feel in a two-dimensional painting. Make sure to include at least three different monocular depth cues in your answer.

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Question 2

At the beginning of the football season, Alex tells his friends that there are several different teams that could win the Super Bowl, and he makes compelling arguments for why each one is a contender. His logic is so strong that his buddies fail to realise that he has not actually made a real prediction. If one of his many choices wins the championship, he may look like he had ESP! Alex's friends are falling for a technique of psychics called ________.

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Question 3

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Question 4

What experimental apparatus has been used to study depth perception in infants?

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The visual cliff has been used to study depth perception in infants. This apparatus consists of a flat platform that appears to abruptly drop off into a clear glass surface. Infants are placed on the platform and their reactions to the apparent drop-off are observed in order to determine if they have developed depth perception.

Question 5

Which of the following is the best example of telepathy?

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Question 6

When Bill looks at his lamp alternately with his left eye and right eye, the image seems to jump from one position to another. This phenomenon illustrates ________.

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The phenomenon described is binocular disparity, which is a difference in the images received by the left and right eye. This difference causes the image to appear to jump from one position to another as the eyes switch between viewing it separately.

Question 7

The ability to perceive stimuli consistently despite variations in viewing conditions is called ________.

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Question 8

As we look off in the distance, the lines on a road seem to shrink down to a point where it meets rather than staying parallel as we know it must. This is an example of the monocular cue of ________.

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Question 9

Extrasensory knowledge of someone else's thoughts is called ________.

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Telepathy specifically refers to the ability to perceive or communicate information from another person's mind without using any known physical communication channels, such as speech or body language. Precognition is the ability to perceive or predict future events, clairvoyance is the ability to perceive information about a person, object or event that is not readily available through normal sensory channels, and psychometry is the ability to read information from an object by touching it. None of these abilities specifically relate to reading or perceiving another person's thoughts.

Question 10

Tom spent the morning taking pictures in the small coves of a local lake. What monocular cue is providing depth perception when the near objects in his photographs appear much larger than those on the opposite shore of the cove?

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The monocular cue of relative size is providing depth perception in this scenario. When near objects appear larger than far objects, our brain interprets this as the near objects being closer.

Question 11

Seven-month-old Mazie is crawling toward the end of the bed. How likely is it that she will continue on and fall off?

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Depth perception typically develops by about six months of age, which means that Mazie is likely able to judge the distance from the edge of the bed and stop before falling off.

Question 12

Visual distance and depth cues that require the use of both eyes are called ________.

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Binocular cues require the use of both eyes to perceive visual distance and depth. Monocular cues can be perceived with just one eye, while diocular cues and dichromatic cues are not actual terms used in psychology.

Question 13

How might a proponent of ESP use signal detection theory to explain the experimenter effect that interferes with demonstrating that ESP exists?

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Question 14

The monocular cue of ________ is being used when an artist places trees in front of riders to create a sense of depth when the picture is viewed.

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Interposition is the monocular cue that refers to the placement of objects in front of each other to create depth perception. In this scenario, the artist is placing trees in front of riders to give the impression that the trees are closer than the riders and therefore, creating a sense of depth in the picture. Light and shadow, linear perspective, and relative size are other monocular cues that can be used to create depth perception, but they are not being used here.

Question 15

Scott is at lunch with his friends, playing with some straws. He places two coins between straws that are parallel and two between two straws that are angled toward each other. What perceptual illusion is Scott trying to re-create?

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Scott is attempting to re-create the Ponzo illusion, which is created when two parallel lines are placed across converging lines. The converging lines create a depth cue that tricks the brain into perceiving the longer line as being farther away and therefore larger. In this case, the straws act as the converging lines and the coins as the parallel lines.

Question 16

Infant Esme is just waking up from her nap. As her mum enters the room, Esme turns her head in Mum's direction. Which of the following allowed Esme to know the direction Mum would be entering from?

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Binaural cues refer to the way our ears work together to determine the source of a sound. This allows us to know the direction of a sound, such as the sound of someone entering a room. As Esme turned her head in Mum's direction, it suggests that she used binaural cues to locate the source of Mum's footsteps.

Question 17

The fact that our eyes see near objects as being quite different while seeing distant objects as being quite similar is known as ________.

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Binocular disparity refers to the difference in the images seen by our left and right eye due to their slightly different positions. This allows us to perceive depth and distance. As objects get farther away, the disparity decreases, and objects appear more similar to each other. However, for near objects, the disparity is greater, and the images seen by each eye are quite different, leading to a more distinct perception of depth. Binocular inversion, convergence, and stereophonic vision are not accurate terms to describe this phenomenon.

Question 18

Jason is an ex-football player who now hosts his own sports talk show. He spends most of his time predicting who will win the game on Sunday. Which of the following abilities would be most useful to Jason?

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Precognition is the ability to see into the future, which would be useful for Jason to predict who will win the game on Sunday.

Question 19

According to the authors, one reason why people continue to believe in the existence of ESP is that

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People often perceive certain events as improbable without realizing that such events can actually occur more frequently than expected due to probability and chance.

Question 20

Perception of events outside the known channels of sensation is called

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Extra-sensory perception (ESP) refers to perception beyond the known channels of sensation, including telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

Quiz 4: Sensation and Perception