What primarily controls the convergence of the eyes?
Correct answer C. Extrinsic muscles of the eye
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Psychology MCQs
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Where do some nerve fibres from each eye cross to the brain hemisphere on the opposite side?
Correct answer C. Optic chiasma
What causes myopia, or short-sightedness?
Correct answer B. An elongated eyeball
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The fovea and the blind spot are both features of which part of the eye?
Correct answer D. Retina
Which of these are among the best-studied perceptual constancies?
Correct answer C. Shape, location, size
On which perceptual phenomenon are motion pictures based?
Correct answer B. Stroboscopic motion
What is the largest sense organ of the body?
Correct answer C. Skin
Which part of the eye controls how much light enters it?
Correct answer A. Iris
Which part of the ear is the first to vibrate when sound waves arrive?
Correct answer C. Eardrum
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What is the light-sensitive inner layer of the eye that contains the rods and cones called?
Correct answer B. Retina
Hair cells are to hearing as which cells are to vision?
Correct answer A. Rods and cones
Which description best fits a Gestalt?
Correct answer C. An organised whole
Which part of the eye controls the size of the pupil?
Correct answer A. Iris
What did Gestalt psychologists stress?
Correct answer C. The whole is more than the sum of its parts
Which receptor in the eye works best in dim light?
Correct answer A. Rod
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From which language does the word Gestalt, meaning an organised whole, come?
Correct answer D. German
What is perceiving an object as separate from its surroundings called?
Correct answer B. Figure-ground perception
Complete the analogy: figure is to ground as ____ is to ____?
Correct answer C. Moon, sky
Where does the transduction of light energy into nerve impulses take place?
Correct answer B. Retina
What is the process by which the eyes adjust when moving from darkness into bright light?
Correct answer A. Light adaptation