Brain Teasers Quiz 1

Illusions can offer scientists new insights on how ________ and the brain work, and are more than intriguing parlor tricks.

• thought

• vision

• touch

• belief

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Best of all, illusions get the _____________ in our brains firing.

• energy

• electricity

• emotions

• synapses

True or False- Some illusions have been known since antiquity.

• True

• False

The scientific study of illusions dates back to the beginning of the ______________ century when scientists became interested in perception.

• nineteenth

• twentieth

• sixteenth

• fifteenth

Psychologists try to gain insight into the principles of _____________.

• belief

• perception

• conscious

• power

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Literal optical illusions create ________that are different from the objects that make them.

• sound

• video

• images

• motion

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_____________ illusions are the effects on the eyes and brain of excessive stimulation of a specific type (brightness, tilt, color, movement). ​

• Physiological

• Optical

• Magical

• Muggle

Cognitive illusions are where the eye and brain make _____________inferences.​

• conscious

• imaginary

• neurological

• unconscious

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True or False-The information gathered by the eye is not processed by the brain.

• True

• False

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____________refers to the interpretation of what we take in through our eyes.

• Perception

• Understanding

• Belief

• Outreach

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