WorksheetsPerception quiz 1
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
Sensation is
what we sense
information we sense
information we take in through our senses
information we perceive through our senses
Perception is
how we interpret the information we receive through our senses
how we process our senses
how we perceive the world around us
how we make sense of visual cues
The name of this illusion is:
the Kanizsa triangle
the Ponzo illusion
The Muller Lyer illusion
Linear perspective
The Ponzo illusion is misinterpreted with which depth cue?
relative size
occlusion
linear perspective
height in plain
Which of these is a binocular depth cue?
Occlusion
Convergence
Height in plane
Size constancy
'The closer something is, the bigger the jump' is the effect of:
size constancy
height in plane
convergence
retinal disparity
Who said that Perception is learned?
Gibson
Gregory
Gilchrist
Nesberg
Gregory's constructivist theory of perception argues that perception:
is learned as a baby, demonstrated by the visual cliff
uses our innate abilities to construct the world around us
uses inferences from visual cues and past experience to construct a model of reality
is something we are born with
The role of the brain in convergence is:
it processes an image through inferences and visual cues
it interprets the difference in images as the distance of an object
the left eye sees an image slightly differently to the right
it picks up signals from eye movements about distance
The aim of Gilchrist and Nesberg's study was to see if:
perception is affected by food
food deprivation affects the perception of food
the perception of an ambiguous figure is affected by context
expectation is a factor which affects perception
Gilchrist and Nesberg's results showed:
The hungry group judged the pictures to be much brighter than they actually were
The group that ate normally showed a bigger difference in their memory of the brightness
Those who saw letters said B
Perception is a factor that influences motivation
Bruner and Minturn's study concluded
Those who saw numbers said 13
An ambiguous figure was used, which is not something we come across that often
expectation is a factor which affects perception
motivation is a factor which affects perception
Bruer and Minturn's study uses an independent groups design. This means:
there are more participant variables
the results are independent from other studies
there are demand characteristics
it lacks control
Occlusion is when:
smaller objects in the visual field appear further away
an object higher up in the visual field appears further away
parallel lines appear further away the more they converge
an object that covers another one appears nearer
Kanizsa's triangle is an example of
size constancy
ambiguity
a fiction
a visual cue
Gilchrist and Nesberg's participants thought the study was about:
matching pictures
motivation
perceptual set
brightness
A strength of Gilchrist and Nesberg's study was:
it used an every day task
it used real food
it included a control group
it used an objective measure of perceptual set
According to Gregory's theory, cultural differences in perception show that:
our expectations do not influence what we perceive
perception is mostly direct
perceptual abilities develop through experience
perception is not a construction of the world
A weakness of Gregory's theory is that it can not explain:
how we fill the gaps in perception
how we construct hypotheses about the visual environment
how visual illusions work
innate perceptual abilities
A weakness of Bruner and Minturn's study was that:
the task was not something that would occur in every day life
it had some serious ethical issues
the stimulus was not very clear
the participants had to draw the figure they thought they saw
When something is ambiguous Gregory said
We make an interpretation about what it is
it's an unrealistic task
it gives the study low ecological validity
an inference is made about depth
Gilchrist and Nesberg's study
was highly controlled, standardising everything for its independent groups
lasted for 20 hours and had 26 participants
used an ambiguous figure to trick participants
collected information about how expectation affects perception
A strength of Gregory's theory is
it helps explain why perception is innate
it helps explain why we make mistakes
it helps explain why we make inferences
it helps explain why people perceive visual illusions differently
A weakness of Gregory's theory is
perception is affected by visual cues
babies are attracted to faces from birth meaning perception is innate
Gibson showed that perception is influenced by depth
his theory has since been challenged
