Quick Perception Quiz - 15 questions

Perception is

• how we perceive the world

• how we interpret the information from our senses

• the information we take in through our senses

Draw the Muller Lyer illusion

When an illusion can be seen as two images because both are correct, it's known as ...

When two objects are similar in size so we understand the one which looks smaller to be further away, it's called

• size constancy

• occlusion

• height in plane

• relative size

Who said perception is innate, that we use visual cues such as motion parallax to understand speed and depth?

Who said perception is learned from experience and expectation?

In Western society we grow up with lots of line drawings and cartoons, which affects our perception of the world. This shows that ....... is a factor which affects perception.

In Gilchrist and Nesberg's laboratory study on motivation affecting perception, participants were asked to adjust the brightness of images of food. Results showed:

• Motivation is a factor which affects perception.

• The experimental group (hungry) judged the pictures to be brighter.

• The control group adjusted the images more than the experimental group.

• The control group were highly motivated to eat.

It would be easy for other researchers to replicate Gilchrist and Nesberg's food study on motivation. This shows it is a ..... study.

Bruner and Minturn conducted a study on how expectation affects perceptual set. For this study they used........

• self-report methods

• images of food

• a misinterpreted depth cue

• an ambiguous figure