Psychology Quiz

What is the term for the ability to focus on a specific stimulus while ignoring others?

• Selective Attention

• Inattentional Blindness

• Change Blindness

• Cocktail Party Phenomenon

Which Gestalt principle involves perceiving objects as part of a background?

• Figure-ground

• Similarity

• Proximity

• Closure

Who created the visual cliff experiment?

• Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk

• Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung

• Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky

• B.F. Skinner and John Watson

What does the visual cliff experiment test in infants?

• Depth Perception

• Color Vision

• Auditory Processing

• Memory Retention

Image of a visual cliff experiment setup with a child and a glass top.

• The child perceives a drop and hesitates to cross.

• The child confidently crosses the glass top.

• The child is indifferent to the visual cliff.

• The child plays with toys on the glass top.

Which of the following is a binocular cue?

• Relative size

• Retinal disparity

• Texture gradient

• Motion parallax

What is the term for the visual cue that involves the inward movement of the eyes when focusing on closer objects?

• Interposition

• Convergence

• Linear perspective

• Relative clarity

Which monocular cue involves the perception of an object as being closer because it partially blocks another object?

• Motion parallax

• Interposition

• Relative size

• Texture gradient

What is the term for the apparent motion observed when a series of still images are shown in rapid succession?

• Phi Phenomenon

• Stroboscopic Movement

• Linear perspective

• Relative clarity

Which monocular cue involves perceiving objects that are further away as smaller than those that are closer?

• Relative size

• Texture gradient

• Motion parallax

• Relative clarity