A. sensation
B. perception
C. selective attention
D. adaptation
Psychology Mcqs
Motion pictures are based on _______________?
A. the gamma phenomenon
B. the principle of illusory circle
C. the autokinetic illusion
D. stroboscopic motion
The largest sense organ of the body is/are the _______________?
A. eyes
B. ears
C. tongue
D. skin
The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as _________________?
A. Weber’s law
B. the opponent-process theory
C. feature detection
D. the difference threshold
Which of the following is a binocular cue for the perception of distance?
A. interposition
B. convergence
C. closure
D. linear perspective
It is easier to see a camouflaged animal when it moves than when it stays still. This illustrates the Gestalt principle of ______________?
A. closure
B. proximity
C. similarity
D. common movement
You see a photograph showing a man, a woman and a car. The two people appear closer to you than the car does because they obscure part of it. This depth cue is called ______________?
A. eye convergence
B. linear perspective
C. relative image size of familiar objects
D. occlusion
Failure to realize how hot the bath water really is after you have been sitting in it for ten minutes best illustrates the process of sensory ______________?
A. adaptation
B. accommodation
C. continuity
D. threshold
Size constancy refers to our perception of an object’s size as the same even though its image on the retina_____________ as the distance between us and the object _____________?
A. increases, decreases
B. decreases, increases
C. decreases, decreases
D. a and b
If two objects are assumed to be the same size, the object that casts the smaller retinal image is perceived to be _______________?
A. more coarsely textured
B. less hazy
C. more distant
D. closer