AP Psychology Perception
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- Q1
Which type of processing is guided by higher-level mental processes, drawing from experience and expectations?
Perceptual adaptation
Bottom-up processing
Transduction
Top-down processing
20s - Q2
Diminished sensitivity due to constant stimulation is known as what?
Selective attention
Sensory adaptation
Change blindness
Habituation
20s - Q3
What refers to the ability to attend to only a limited amount of sensory information at a time?
Selective attention
Inattentional blindness
Change blindness
Closure
20s - Q4
The failure to notice a visible, but unexpected stimulus while focused on something else is called what?
Selective attention
Change blindness
Perceptual set
Inattentional blindness
20s - Q5
Which Gestalt principle involves the tendency to group nearby figures together?
Continuity
Similarity
Closure
Proximity
15s - Q6
What term describes the ability to perceive objects in three dimensions, allowing us to judge distance?
Linear perspective
Retinal disparity
Depth perception
Binocular cues
30s - Q7
What is a laboratory device used for testing depth perception in infants and young animals called?
Visual cliff
Phi phenomenon
Retinal disparity
Convergence
15s - Q8
Which Gestalt principle describes our tendency to fill in gaps to create a full, complete object?
Connectedness
Proximity
Similarity
Closure
15s - Q9
The binocular cue where the eyes converge inward to focus on a nearby object is called what?
Texture gradient
Convergence
Retinal disparity
Relative size
15s - Q10
What is the monocular cue for depth where parallel lines appear to converge in the distance?
Relative size
Phi phenomenon
Interposition
Linear perspective
15s - Q11
Which term refers to our brain’s ability to adjust to an altered visual reality, like inverted vision?
Perceptual constancy
Stroboscopic movement
Top-down processing
Perceptual adaptation
15s - Q12
Which term describes the brain’s perception of continuous movement in a rapid series of slightly varying images, like in film or animation?
Relative motion
Phi phenomenon
Stroboscopic movement
Retinal disparity
15s - Q13
The tendency to perceive objects as having a constant size, even when our distance from them changes, is known as what?
Shape constancy
Lightness constancy
Size constancy
Perceptual adaptation
15s - Q14
What depth cue involves judging distance by comparing the difference between the images from each eye?
Texture gradient
Binocular convergence
Linear perspective
Retinal disparity
15s - Q15
What monocular depth cue involves the perception that objects farther away appear less clear and more "fuzzy"?
Relative size
Relative clarity
Texture gradient
Relative motion
15s