The Barbershop Pole: History, Illusion, and Visual Perception

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was one of the additional roles of barbers in the Middle Ages besides cutting hair?
Gardening
Cooking
Teaching
Performing surgeries
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who first mentioned the paradox related to the barbershop pole illusion?
Carl Jung
Sigmund Freud
JP Guilford
Hans Wallach
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In what year was Hans Wallach's paper on the barbershop pole illusion first published in English?
1996
1976
1935
1929
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the term used to describe the visual system's limited ability to interpret motion due to seeing only a small portion of the visual field?
Optical illusion
Visual distortion
Motion blindness
Aperture problem
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the visual system prefer when there is no additional information about motion?
Slowest possible motion
Random motion
Fastest possible motion
No motion
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