Sensation and Perception Quiz

Keisha recently lost the sight in her left eye. According to binocular cues, in which of the following situations would Keisha NOT be able to judge depth?

• Looking down a railroad track as it disappears into a distance

• Looking about a train window at passing scenery

• Judging how far down a step/ledge is

• Watching two people approach from different distances

• Watching a crowd of children play in a school year

Receptors for olfaction are located

• on the basilar membrane of the cochlea

• in taste buds on the tongue

• in the nasal cavity

• in the esophagus

• in the dermis

Which of the following is true about the blind spot in the eye?

• It occurs where the optic nerve leaves the eye.

• It is caused by an excess of bipolar cells in the retina.

• It is most apparent in low levels of illumination.

• It is stimulated only by high levels of illumination.

• It is caused by a bleaching of rhodopsin in the rods.

Negative afterimages are explained by

• the trichromatic theory

• color detection by rods

• the opponent-process theory

• a lack of adaptation

• dichromatic color perception

As you watch your friend walk away from you, your retinal image of your friend gets smaller. Despite this, you do not perceive him to be shrinking because of

• Motion parallax

• Retinal disparity

• Size consistency

• Law of continuity

• Common fate

Which of the following senses respond directly to chemical energy rather than physical energy?

• Gustatory and Olfactory

• Vestibular and Gustatory

• Olfactory and Auditory

• Touch and Visual

• Kinesthetic and Visual

The ability to see a cube in the diagram above is best explained by which of the following?

• Resting potential of neurons in the optic nerve

• Subjective contours and the laws of closure/continuity

• The inverted and reversed image that a visual stimulus produces on the retina

• The opponent process theory of vision

• Gestalt theory of similarity

Which of the following is the correct path a neural impulse will follow through the different layers of the retina?

• Ganglion cells, bipolar cells, rods and cones, optic nerve

• Bipolar cells, ganglion cells, rods and cones, optic nerve

• Optic nerve, ganglion cells, bipolar cells, rods and cones

• Rods and cones, ganglion cells, bipolar cells, optic nerve

• Rods and cones, bipolar cells, ganglion cells, optic nerve

Texting while driving increases the number of accidents that occur because it is almost impossible to use

• Selective attention

• Selective inattention

• Divided attention

• Change blindness

• Monocular cues

When viewed from the window of a moving train, nearby objects seem to pass by more quickly than do more distant objects. This cue is known as

• stroboscopic motion

• motion parallax

• perceptual constancy

• linear perspective

• the Müller-Lyer illusion