DSQ 3-3-7

Dara tends to have motion sickness while spinning around during her gymnastics routine. Her teacher advises her that she can avoid this problem by:

• letting her focus freely

• focusing her eyes on a distant, fixed object

• paying more attention to her position along the x-, y-, and z- axes

• trying not to blink her eyes

• closing her eyes tightly

A person will perceive a coin as a circle, even if it is held at an angle to appear to the eyes as an oval, because of:

• shape constancy

• size constancy

• proximity

• similarity

• the cocktail party effect

Which of the following statements related to culture and perception is TRUE?

• People in all cultures perceive the "devil's trident" as a two-dimensional drawing.

• Perceptual expectancies do not vary depending on culture.

• Culture can effect visual perception.

• People in all cultures perceive the "devil's trident" as a three-dimensional drawing.

• Not every culture perceives things.

Randy and Amad are both listening to the same music. Randy thinks the music is mellow and relaxing while Amad thinks the music is unpleasant to the ear. Randy and Amad appear to have different ______ when it comes to the music they are listening to.

• sensations

• perceptions

• thresholds

• measures of frequency

• proximities

Ruth and Debbie are identical twins who were raised by the same family. Vince and Frankie are identical twins who were separated at birth and raised by different families. According to research on the heritability of personality traits, Ruth's and Debbie's personalities are statistically

• more likely to be similar to one another than are Vince’s and Frankie’s personalities

• likely to be as similar and dissimilar to one another as are Vince’s and Frankie’s personalities

• more likely to be dissimilar to one another than are Vince’s and Frankie’s personalities

• less likely to match on the personality dimensions of agreeableness and extraversion than are Vince and Frankie but not on other personality dimensions

• less likely to match on the personality dimensions of openness and neuroticism than are Vince and Frankie but not on other personality dimensions