GCSE Psychology - Perception Quiz

Which statement is the most accurate description of perception:

• Detecting a stimulus in the environment
• The experience of the world around us processed through our sensory receptors
• Organisation and interpretation of sensory information about the world
• How sensory receptors turn sounds, smells, sights etc into signals sent to the brain

Which of the following is an example of perception?

• The bitter taste of dark chocolate
• The smell of a flower
• Understanding what to do with a chair when we see one
• The sound of a dog barking

Gregory's view of sensation and perception can be summed up as:

• Sensation and perception are completely different
• Perception and sensation do not depend on experience
• Sensation and perception are one and the same thing
• An image of an object contains all the information we need to understand it

The 'Ames' Room illusion illustrates:

• Sensory receptors
• Misinterpreted depth cues
• Muller-Lyer
• Ambiguity

What is this following visual illusion known as?

• The Ponzo Illusion
• The Necker Cuber
• The Muller-Lyer illusion
• The Kanisza triange

Two types of monocular depth cue are:

• Height in plane and occlusion
• Convergence and retinal disparity
• Auditory and visual
• Ambiguity and relative size

The following is a type of binocular cue:

• Linear perspective
• Relative size
• Retinal disparity
• Occlusion

Becoming cross-eyed as an object gets close is an example of:

• Height in plane
• Convergence
• Relative size
• Linear perspective

Knowing a distant object is not really tiny is an example of:

• Fiction
• Size constancy
• Ambiguity
• Mis-interpreted depth cues

What is this visual illusion know as?

• Muller-Lyer illusion
• Ponzo illusion
• Kenizsa triangle
• Necker cube