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Psychology Quiz - 6 (Perception)


Q1. The slight difference in images projected onto each retina due to the horizontal separation of our eyes, which is crucial for depth perception and creating a three-dimensional understanding of our environment is called:
A.    retinal disparity
B.    interposition
C.    shadow patterns
D.    linear perspective

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Q2. The experience that the environment as we perceive it changes much less than do our sensory inputs, that is the world remains relatively stable despite drastic changes in the sensory input is called:
A.    visual illusions
B.    perceptual constancy
C. illusions
D. hypersthesia
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Q3. The system that cancels the perception of motion caused by eye and head movements:
A. autokinetic motion
B. brain comparator
C. mismatch negativity
D. binocular vision

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Q4. In perception, monocular cues are:
A.    linear perspective
B.    clearness
C.    interposition
D.    All of the above
Q5. the recognition of a figure standing out from a ground:
A. brightness constancy
B. size constancy
C. camouflage
D. figure–ground organization
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