Quiz on Visual Perception

What is the process of transforming sensory input into neural activity called?

• Recognition

• Illusion

• Perception

• Transduction

Which part of the eye is responsible for focusing light?

• Retina

• Pupil

• Cornea

• Lens

What type of photoreceptor is primarily responsible for color vision?

• Ganglion cells

• Cones

• Bipolar cells

• Rods

What phenomenon occurs when our sensory systems misinterpret sensory information?

• Perceptual illusion

• Sensory adaptation

• Cognitive dissonance

• Perceptual constancy

Which theory suggests that perception begins with higher-order thinking?

• Bottom-up theory

• Top-down theory

• Feature-matching theory

• Prototype theory

What is the term for the inability to recognize faces?

• Agnosia

• Akinetopsia

• Prosopagnosia

• Color blindness

Which part of the brain is primarily involved in processing visual information?

• Parietal lobe

• Occipital lobe

• Temporal lobe

• Frontal lobe

What is the term for the mental representation of the world constructed by the visual system?

• Gestalt

• Percept

• Proximal stimulus

• Distal stimulus

What is the 'what pathway' in the visual system responsible for?

• Color perception

• Motion detection

• Spatial awareness

• Object recognition

Which type of color blindness is most common?

• Complete color blindness

• Blue-yellow

• Achromatopsia

• Red-green