Chapter 6 Quiz 1

Psychics are unable to make millions of dollars betting on horse races. This undermines their claims to possess the power of

precognition

The way in which you quickly group the individual letters in this test item into separate words best illustrates the principle of

proximity

The opponent-process theory is most useful for explaining a characteristic of

afterimages

Damage to the basilar membrane is most likely to affect one's

audition

Receptor cells for the vestibular sense send messages to the

cerebellum

ATM machines are more complex than VCRs ever were but are easier to operate thanks to the efforts of

human factors psychologists

The Moon illusion refers to our tendency to perceive the Moon as unusually

large when it is near the horizon

Multiple ________ send combined messages to a bipolar cell, whereas a single ________ may link directly to a single bipolar cell.

rods; cone

If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so, you will feel it for only a few moments. This best illustrates

sensory adaptation

The rubber-hand illusion best illustrates

sensory interaction

Immanuel Kant and John Locke would have been most likely to disagree about the extent to which perception is influenced by

cultural experience

Some stroke victims lose the capacity to perceive motion but retain the capacity to perceive shapes and colors. Others lose the capacity to perceive colors but retain the capacity to perceive movement and form. These peculiar visual disabilities best illustrate our normal capacity for

parallel processing

The fact that we recognize objects as having a consistent form regardless of changing viewing angles illustrates

perceptual constancy

People perceive an adult-child pair as looking more alike when told they are parent and child. This best illustrates the impact of

perceptual set

If a visual image is first presented subliminally, the chance of a person later recognizing the same briefly presented image is improved. This best illustrates

that information can be processed outside of conscious awareness