Psychology MCQs with Answers – Practice Online – Page 44

Question 861 Psychology

What is the process of detecting, translating and transmitting messages from the external environment to the brain called?

Correct answer A. Sensation

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Question 862 Psychology

What is the principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for the difference to be noticed called?

Correct answer D. Weber’s law

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Question 863 Psychology

Which of the following is a binocular cue for judging distance?

Correct answer B. Convergence

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Question 864 Psychology

A camouflaged animal is easier to spot when it moves than when it keeps still. Which Gestalt principle does this show?

Correct answer A. Common movement

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Question 865 Psychology

In a photograph of a man, a woman and a car, the two people seem closer than the car because they block part of it from view. What is this depth cue called?

Correct answer B. occlusion

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Question 866 Psychology

Not realising how hot your bath water really is after sitting in it for ten minutes best illustrates which sensory process?

Correct answer D. Adaptation

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Question 867 Psychology

Size constancy means we perceive an object’s size as unchanged even though its retinal image as the distance between us and the object . Which pair fills the blanks?

Correct answer C. decreases, increases

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Question 868 Psychology

If two objects are assumed to be the same size, how is the one that casts a smaller retinal image perceived?

Correct answer D. more distant

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Question 869 Psychology

A visual scene can be divided into two parts: the object that holds our attention and the area that seems to continue behind it. What are these two parts called?

Correct answer B. Figure, ground

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Question 870 Psychology

Experiments show that judging the size of an unfamiliar object depends on what?

Correct answer A. Depth cues

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Question 871 Psychology

Which cue do artists use to convey depth on a flat canvas?

Correct answer B. interposition

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Question 872 Psychology

According to Gestalt psychologists, what reverses in a reversible figure such as the vase-faces image?

Correct answer A. Figure-ground relations

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Question 873 Psychology

Movement illusions, such as the moon appearing to race between clouds, show the role played in visual perception by what?

Correct answer D. A frame of reference

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Question 874 Psychology

Opponent-process theory relates to colour vision in the same way that gate-control theory relates to which sense?

Correct answer C. pain

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Question 875 Psychology

Which of the following would help to alert you quickly to a gas leak at home?

Correct answer C. Olfactory receptors

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Question 876 Psychology

In a tense and possibly dangerous situation, a police officer may ‘see’ a hammer in a man’s hand as a gun. What could explain this error?

Correct answer D. Perceptual set

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Question 877 Psychology

What are perceptual processes that rely on existing knowledge to interpret new information called?

Correct answer B. top-down processes

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Question 878 Psychology

Which receptor cells most directly allow us to tell apart different wavelengths of light?

Correct answer A. Cones

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Question 879 Psychology

Students wait in groups outside a locked classroom. Each person can follow the voices in their own group while screening out the others. What is this an example of?

Correct answer C. Selective listening

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Question 880 Psychology

By contracting or relaxing, the muscle fibres of the iris control the amount of light entering the eye by changing the size of which structure?

Correct answer A. pupil

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