A. vestibular sacs
B. olfactory receptors
C. bipolar cells
D. basilar membrane
Psychology Mcqs
A police officer is a tense and possibly dangerous situation may “see” a hammer in a man’s hand as a gun. This mistake could be attributed to the officer’s __________________?
A. perceptual set
B. selective viewing
C. Stroop interference
D. frame illusion
A Gestalt is best described as a/an ________________?
A. binocular cue
B. interposition
C. perceptual adaptation
D. organized whole
The size of the pupil is controlled by the _______________?
A. lens
B. retina
C. cornea
D. iris
The perceptual processes that make use of preexisting knowledge to interpret new information are called _______________?
A. sensory processes
B. top-down processes
C. bottom-up processes
D. parallel processes
Which receptor cells most directly enable us to distinguish different wavelengths of light?
A. rods
B. cones
C. bipolar cells
D. feature detectors
Gestalt psychologists emphasized that ______________________?
A. perception is the same as sensation
B. we learn to perceive the world through experience
C. the whole is more than the sum of its parts
D. sensation has no effect on perception
Students stand in groups waiting for someone to unlock their classroom. The people in each group are able to attend to the voices in their own conversation group and screen out the voices in others. This is an example of ______________?
A. shadowing
B. selective listening
C. parallel processing
D. None of these
The receptor of the eye that functions best in dim light is the ______________?
A. fovea
B. ganglion
C. cone
D. rod
The muscle fibers of the iris can increase or decrease the amount of light entering the eye by expanding or contracting the ______________?
A. lens
B. cornea
C. pupil
D. fovea