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my personal practice exam i made for my perception midterm, based off class notes
Jenny Terranova
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Question 1

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Imperfect brain-eye coordination, or a different map in the brain than on the retina, is called what? (Clue: The pattern of neural firing that lets you find the bathroom at night)
Answer
  • spatial maps
  • attentional maps
  • retinal maps
  • neural-optic maps

Question 2

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The aperture problem is offset by what?
Answer
  • both signals from the parietal lobe and overlapping columns in the brain
  • overlapping columns in the brain
  • signals from the parietal lobe
  • both signals from the occipital lobe and overlapping columns in the brain

Question 3

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What is it called, when an image is not on the horoptor?
Answer
  • visual saccades
  • peripheral vision
  • absolute disparity
  • steriopsis

Question 4

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Direct foveal focus on an attended object is what?
Answer
  • fixation
  • overt attention
  • attention
  • covert attention

Question 5

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This questions how we perceive individual features:
Answer
  • feature integration theory
  • aperture problem
  • binding problem
  • coherence

Question 6

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Where is the landmark area of the brain?
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  • parietal region
  • right parahyppocampal gyrus
  • mid temporal lobe
  • occipital lobe

Question 7

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How objects are analyzed into separate features: ie. the red ball is: red, round
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  • feature integration theory
  • binding
  • pre-attentive stage
  • aperture

Question 8

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What things comprise attention
Answer
  • accomodation & convergence
  • adjustment & convergence
  • visual scanning & fixation
  • concentration & fixation

Question 9

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Neurons that respond when you engage in a behavior or see someone engaged in a behavior are what?
Answer
  • visual dominant mirror neurons
  • motor dominant parietal neurons
  • visual dominant motor neurons
  • mirror neurons

Question 10

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Where are mirror neurons located?
Answer
  • in the parietal region
  • in the pre-frontal cortex
  • in the occipital lobe
  • in the pre-motor cortex

Question 11

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This refers to the physical properties of whatever a person is looking at, things that make an object come into focus (such as color, contrast, lines, etc.)
Answer
  • stimulus salience
  • salience
  • attentional capture
  • attentional detail

Question 12

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What kind of processing does stimulus salience use?
Answer
  • Neural processing
  • Bottom-up processing
  • Top-down processing
  • Knowledge-based processing

Question 13

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How much a task requires from a person's capacity is what? Difficult tasks require more of this:
Answer
  • load capacity
  • capacity load
  • perceptual load
  • perceptual capacity

Question 14

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Structures created by the surfaces, textures, and the contours of the environment are?
Answer
  • stimulus
  • optic array
  • texture gradient
  • salient

Question 15

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Theory that there is a part of the brain that receives and compares both image displacement signals and corollary discharge signals:
Answer
  • figure-integration theory
  • comparison theory
  • figure-comparison theory
  • comparator theory

Question 16

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Specialized neurons that link specific sights and sounds are:
Answer
  • audiovisual neurons
  • audiovisual mirror neurons
  • parietal neurons
  • mirror neurons

Question 17

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Where do people focus when going around curves?
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  • on the focus of expansion
  • on the destination
  • on the arch of the curve
  • on the road

Question 18

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That when you stare at something for long enough and then look away, you will still see it is called what?
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  • mirroring
  • after-images
  • after-effects
  • local disturbances of the optic array

Question 19

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As you move and things are uncovered, what is it called? What is it called when you move and things are covered?
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  • accretion, deletion
  • steriopsis, horopsis
  • deletion, accretion
  • local disturbances of the optic array

Question 20

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What are local disturbances of the optic array?
Answer
  • when things are coming at you they appear to shrink and move together, and when things are going away from you they appear to grow and expand
  • when things that are coming at you they appear to grow and expand, and when things are going away from you they appear to shrink and move together
  • things that get your attention to a specific location
  • that as you move, stationary background objects are uncovered and covered

Question 21

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What gets your attention to a specific location?
Answer
  • spatial attention
  • stimulus salience
  • scene schemas
  • scene statistics

Question 22

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that identifying information in the retinal image is correlated to the depth of a scene is called:
Answer
  • invarient information
  • identifying information
  • scene maps
  • cue approach to depth perception

Question 23

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the aperture problem is what?
Answer
  • when you cannot perceive motion causing things to appear strobe like
  • when you feel like everything is moving even when it is not
  • when you cannot tell if something is moving or not
  • when you cannot tell the depth of something

Question 24

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When movement depicted in a still photo appears to continue to move in one's mind it is called:
Answer
  • representational momentum
  • induced motion
  • relational momentum
  • illusory motion

Question 25

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Where does an image appear if it does not appear on the horoptor?
Answer
  • in the sterioptor
  • in the fovea
  • in the focus of expansion
  • in the periphery

Question 26

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What is the pattern of neural firing that allows you to find the potty on the blackest of nights?
Answer
  • retinal mapping
  • attentional mapping
  • spatial mapping
  • area mapping

Question 27

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What part of the brain does attentional mapping deal with?
Answer
  • the parietal region
  • the superior temporal sulcrus
  • the right parahippocampal gyrus
  • mid temporal sulcrus

Question 28

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of all the things in the world, what we focus on in a given moment is called what?
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  • attention
  • fixation
  • attentional capture
  • stimulus salience

Question 29

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occular motor cues work with
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  • adjustment & convergence
  • accomodation & convergence
  • accomodation & fixation
  • attention & fixation

Question 30

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How do comic books allow you to visualize the story moving?
Answer
  • relational momentum
  • relational movement
  • representational movement
  • representational momentum

Question 31

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where is the memory place in the brain?
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  • the pre-motor cortex
  • the pre-frontal cortex
  • the right parahippocampal gyrus
  • the parahippocampal area

Question 32

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information we gather from objects that suggest how they might be used are called what?
Answer
  • accomodations
  • visual cues
  • invarient information
  • affordances

Question 33

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That the longer you stare at a color, the duller it looks is called what?
Answer
  • chromatic adaptation
  • color adaptation
  • chromatic adjustment
  • color adjustment

Question 34

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How the eye's lens changes its shape to look at different objects or distances is called what?
Answer
  • adjustment
  • affordance
  • accomodation
  • adaptation

Question 35

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The area of maximum neural firings on the brain, that can expand and contract depending on what we need to focus on, is called what?
Answer
  • right parahippocampal gyrus
  • pre-frontal cortex
  • representational maps
  • receptive field maps

Question 36

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Attention is voluntary
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  • True
  • False

Question 37

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Where is the Human Navigation Network?
Answer
  • the right parahippocampal gyrus and the parietal lobe
  • the right hippocampus and the parietal lobe
  • the right parahippocampal gyrus and the occipital lobe
  • the right hippocampus and the occiptial lobe

Question 38

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What does the medial superior temporal area respond to?
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  • vertical or horizontal movement
  • gradient flow
  • invarient information
  • rightward or leftward movement

Question 39

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What area of the brain responds to optic flow areas?
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  • the parietal lobe
  • the occipital lobe
  • the medial superior temporal area
  • the pre-motor cortex

Question 40

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stereoscopic depth perception occurs with what?
Answer
  • movement
  • when images are on perfectly symmetrical corresponding points in both eyes
  • horopsis
  • when there is optic ataxia on both eyes

Question 41

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theory that cells further down behind the retina work in an opposite manner
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  • opponent process theory
  • opposing theory
  • figure-ground theory
  • feature integration theory

Question 42

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The way a baseball player can move himself to catch a ball on a curve is an example of what?
Answer
  • visual saccades
  • motor saccades
  • mirror saccades
  • movement saccades

Question 43

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J.J. Gibson found that traditional cues for depth did not adequately explain what?
Answer
  • how pilots could find the runway
  • how pilots can land planes on the runway
  • how pilots could judge their positions relative to the runway
  • how pilots could know when to land on the runway

Question 44

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The area of the brain that helps people reach and grasp for things is called what?
Answer
  • occipital region
  • occipital reach region
  • parietal region
  • parietal reach region

Question 45

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What kind of cue cannot be represented in a laboratory condition?
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  • visual
  • motor
  • movement
  • audiovisual

Question 46

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a small area in the center of the the human retina containing only cone receptors is called:
Answer
  • retinal maps
  • the cornea
  • the fovea
  • the horoptor

Question 47

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where/how things tend to go in the unfolding of an event is called:
Answer
  • scene statistics
  • scene schemas
  • statistical scene
  • statistical schema

Question 48

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How quickly do the eyes move?
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  • approximately 5x per second
  • approximately 3x per second
  • approximately 4x per second
  • approximately 8x per second

Question 49

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What is it called when you look at an object for 30-60 seconds, and it appears to move
Answer
  • after effects
  • motion after effects
  • induced motion
  • apparent motion

Question 50

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perception of movement as a cue, related to something else, is called what?
Answer
  • gradient flow
  • induced motion
  • apparent motion
  • optic flow

Question 51

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when people go colorblind due to brain damage it is called:
Answer
  • optic ataxia
  • cerebral ataxia
  • cerebral achromatopsia
  • chromatic ataxia

Question 52

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what experiment demonstrated trichromatic theory?
Answer
  • where people were shown shapes that moved around a box a certain way, and then attributed emotional states to them
  • where people were shown 3 different colors, and had to replicate them by turning dials on a box
  • where people were shown different colors, and had to replicate them by turning 3 colored dials on a box
  • where people are shown different colors moving around a box, and had to replicate them with the colors.

Question 53

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when you don't see something long enough to figure out why it bugs you, it is called what?
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  • subliminal perception
  • subliminal messaging
  • subliminal statistics
  • peripheral messaging

Question 54

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Light-from-above-assumption uses bottom- up processing
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 55

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scene schemas use top down processing
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 56

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Theory that cells further down behind the retina work in an opposite manner is called?
Answer
  • transposing
  • opposite process theory
  • opponent process theory
  • columns

Question 57

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When equally spaced objects appear closer together on the horizon it is called:
Answer
  • texture gradient or perspective convergence
  • occular convergence
  • gradient flow or optic flow
  • visual angles

Question 58

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What does opponent process theory cause?
Answer
  • after effects
  • after images
  • contrast
  • intensity

Question 59

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rate and lack of flow are cues that help us comprehend what?
Answer
  • distance
  • objects
  • movement
  • speed

Question 60

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If all your cones function, you are a what?
Answer
  • trichromat
  • dichromat
  • monochromat
  • tetrachromat

Question 61

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Blue and yellow pigment make what, why?
Answer
  • white, because blue pigments have short wavelengths and yellow pigments have medium and long wavelengths, and pigments are additive
  • white, because blue pigments have short wavelengths and yellow pigments have medium and long wavelengths, and pigments are subtractive
  • green, because blue pigments have short wavelengths and yellow pigments have medium and long wavelengths, and pigments are subtractive
  • green, because blue pigments have short wavelengths and yellow pigments have medium and long wavelengths, and pigments are additive

Question 62

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what kind of wavelength is white?
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  • short medium and long
  • medium and long
  • short and medium
  • long

Question 63

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What wavelengths are red, yellow, green and blue?
Answer
  • red is short, yellow is short and medium, green is medium, blue is long
  • yellow is short, red is short and medium, blue is medium, green is long
  • green is short, blue is short and medium, red is medium, yellow is long
  • blue is short, yellow is short and medium, green is medium, red is long

Question 64

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communicates size and distance, something between two points relative to observes eyes
Answer
  • size constancy
  • size consistency
  • visual angles
  • visual saccades

Question 65

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what gets you prepared for a visual cue?
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  • pre-cuing procedure
  • visual saccade
  • occular pre-cue
  • pre-cuing phase

Question 66

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What kind of attention is the most effective?
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  • direct attention
  • foveal attention
  • focal attention
  • overt attention

Question 67

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damage to the parietal area of the brain causes what?
Answer
  • occular ataxia
  • optic ataxia
  • occular achromatosis
  • parietal ataxia

Question 68

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What part of our brain judges spatial location?
Answer
  • mid superior temporal area
  • superior temporal sulcrus
  • parietal area
  • pre frontal cortex

Question 69

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that when you see color under one type of light, it will still appear the same color under another type of light, is called?
Answer
  • chromatic consistency
  • chromatic constancy
  • color constancy
  • color consistency

Question 70

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what is selective reflection?
Answer
  • where some colors are absorbed into a substance or object that is translucent, and other colors pass through
  • where some colors are absorbed into a substance or object that is opaque, and other colors pass through
  • where some colors are absorbed into a substance or object that is translucent, and others colors are reflected
  • where some colors are absorbed into a substance or object that is opaque, and other colors are reflected

Question 71

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signals sent from the brain to the eye muscles to follow motion are called?
Answer
  • motor signals
  • motion signals
  • corollary discharge signals
  • image displacement signals

Question 72

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that distant objects appear less focused and bluish is:
Answer
  • spatial scene
  • atmospheric stimulus
  • atmospheric pressure
  • size constancy

Question 73

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relative height and positioning are examples of....?
Answer
  • spatial cues
  • mononocular cues
  • spatial scenes
  • occular cues

Question 74

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What is optic ataxia?
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  • when people have trouble pinpointing where a visual stimulus is
  • when people cannot perceive motion
  • when people feel motion where there is none
  • when people cannot see color

Question 75

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when something is partially hidden, it is what?
Answer
  • accreded
  • occluded
  • deleted
  • recceded

Question 76

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what is the line called that goes along the visual field where everything can be seen perfectly with both eyes?
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  • horizon
  • stereoptor
  • horoptor
  • periphery

Question 77

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why do researchers not believe there is a color center in the brain?
Answer
  • because they know it is in the eyes
  • because they know color requires signals from all over the brain
  • because they know it is in the occular region as well as in the pre frontal cortex, which is more than one region of the brain
  • that is false, they do believe there is a color center in the brain

Question 78

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what is blindness to motion called?
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  • achromatosis
  • akinotopsia
  • achromatopsia
  • chromatic akinotopsia

Question 79

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the closer you are to an object the .... it appears, and the farther away you are from an object the .... it appears.
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  • faster, slower
  • slower, faster
  • smaller, larger
  • blurrier, clearer

Question 80

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there is flow at the destination point, or straight ahead on the horizon
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  • True
  • False

Question 81

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that proportions stay relatively the same
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  • visual saccades
  • motor saccades
  • size constancy
  • size consistency

Question 82

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what is stereopsis?
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  • the disparity from the horopsis
  • how things are mirrored in opposing parts of each eye
  • how things are mirrored in identical parts of each eye
  • where something falls on the horoptor line

Question 83

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the absence of flow at the destination point, or straight ahead on the horizon, is what?
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  • gradient flow
  • focal point
  • foveal point
  • focus of expansion

Question 84

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the distance in speed that occurs based on the location one is from something is called what?
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  • optic flow
  • gradient flow
  • movement
  • visual disparity

Question 85

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data gathered based on what doesn't move or change, that things proportionally stay the same, is what?
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  • invarient stimuli
  • motor saccades
  • invarient information
  • stimulus salience

Question 86

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what is the spectrum of visible light to humans?
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  • 400-1400 nm
  • 200-700 nm
  • 400-700 nm
  • 700-1400 nm

Question 87

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approximately how many colors can most humans perceive?
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  • 200
  • 700
  • 300
  • 400

Question 88

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humans cannot describe the complete spectrum of colors without what "pure" colors?
Answer
  • red, yellow, blue, white
  • red, yellow, blue, green
  • red, yellow, blue, black
  • red, yellow, blue

Question 89

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movement specific to living creatures is called?
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  • organic motion
  • organic movement
  • biological motion
  • biological movement

Question 90

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when white is taken away from a color, it is called what?
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  • saturation
  • intensity
  • desaturation
  • denaturation

Question 91

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what are achromatic colors?
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  • grey, white, black, red
  • yellow, blue, red, green
  • yellow, blue, red
  • grey, white, black

Question 92

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with what type of color is there no selective reflection?
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  • black
  • achromatic color
  • chromatic color
  • red

Question 93

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a neural circuit that helps detect motion is called what?
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  • reichardt circuit
  • motion circuit
  • reichardt detector
  • motor detector

Question 94

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these use excitatory and inhibitory-ness to help us see colors sharply:
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  • visual dominant parietal neurons
  • contrasting colors
  • opponent neurons
  • mirror neurons

Question 95

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copy of motor signals that is sent to the cortex to make the person aware they are moving are:
Answer
  • corollary discharge signals
  • corollary displacement signals
  • image displacement signals
  • image discharge signals

Question 96

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information sent to the brain about an image moving around on the retina is:
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  • image displacement signal
  • image discharge signal
  • invarient information
  • corollary discharge signal

Question 97

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neurons that help us look around and get to things are
Answer
  • parietal motor dominant neurons
  • motor dominant parietal neurons
  • motor neurons
  • parietal neurons

Question 98

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Perception of movement cannot be explained by what is happening on the retina alone
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  • True
  • False

Question 99

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The two ends of the visual light spectrum are?
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  • 400-430 (red) to 650-700 (violet)
  • 400-450 (violet) to 630-700 (red)
  • 400-450 (red) to 630-700 (violet)
  • 400-430 (violet) to 650-700 (red)

Question 100

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the degree to which things move in the same direction is?
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  • coherence
  • constancy
  • consistency
  • collusion

Question 101

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what part of the bran does the shortest path constraint activate?
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  • motor dominant parietal cortex
  • motor cortex
  • parietal cortex
  • parietal reach region

Question 102

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refers to the idea a person has a certain capacity for a task
Answer
  • perceptual capacity
  • perceptual load
  • perceptual identity
  • perceptual reality

Question 103

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Damage to the corollary discharge signals causes someone to be unable to perceive movement
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 104

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inability to judge distances due to damage to the visual and motor dominant neurons is what?
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  • occipital ataxia
  • ocular ataxia
  • parahippocampal ataxia
  • hippocampal ataxia

Question 105

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how an object's individual features become bound together is?
Answer
  • binding
  • aperture
  • binding problem
  • aperture problem

Question 106

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attentional capture uses bottom-down processing
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 107

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constant, jerky movements of the eye are:
Answer
  • visual saccades
  • motor saccades
  • visual motion
  • occular spasms

Question 108

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the part of the brain that activates when viewing biological motion is?
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  • superior temporal sulcrus
  • mid superior temporal area
  • parietal region
  • pre-frontal cortex

Question 109

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Real Motion Neurons respond when the eye is still, not when it is moving
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  • True
  • False

Question 110

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Visual saccades help a baseball player catch a ball on a curve
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 111

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constant physical adjustments relying on flow information to maintain position are called motor saccades
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 112

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failure to realize change in a scene, generally because it does have some continuities, is called
Answer
  • invarient blindness
  • inattentional blindness
  • change blindness
  • invarient inattention

Question 113

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how things that are not moving may appear to move, like how alternating lights on a sign may make an arrow appear to move forward
Answer
  • actual motion
  • apparent motion
  • illusory motion
  • induced motion

Question 114

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when the motion of one object makes another nearby object that is not moving appear to move, it is called:
Answer
  • actual motion
  • apparent motion
  • induced motion
  • illusory motion

Question 115

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theory that we move from pieces to wholes when viewing an object or scene, which is why eyewitness testimony can get messed up
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  • apparent combination
  • aperture
  • binding
  • illusory conjuctions

Question 116

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how me move around actively and collect data from our environment to interpret it is called?
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  • invarient information
  • visual angles
  • comparator theory
  • ecological approach
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