Cognitive Psychology - Lecture 3 Quiz

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What determines whether something is a monocular cue or a binocular cue?
The amount of eyes acquired
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A difference in the image location of an object between the left and right eyes is known as?
Binocular disparity
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When looking out of a plane window, more distant clouds move slower than nearer clouds. What is this effect called?
Motion Parallax
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If two objects are in our visual field, with one being further back then the other, take up the same amount of our field of view. What do we perceive?
The further object is larger in size
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Occlusion occurs when...
closer objects block out further away ones
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What is foreshortening?
When circles look like ovals when the surface is stilted away
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The difference between crossed disparity and uncrossed disparity is that crossed disparity involves objects that are _______ the plane of fixation, while uncrossed disparity involves objects that are _______ the plane of fixation.
In front; Behind
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Gestalt psychologists emphasize that
the perceptual whole is greater than the sum of its parts
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Structuralism relates to
a percept is nothing more than the sum of its sensory elements
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What is it called when images provoke the perception of edges in locations where there is no change in luminance of colour? This is hard to be explained by the structuralist approach
Illusory Contours
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Which is NOT a Gestalt Principle
Illusory Contour
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When grouping, this principle overrides proximity and relates to the fact that things that are similar, group together.
Similarity
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What is Common Fate?
Things that move together, Group together
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What Gestalt Principle preserves occlusion?
Good continuation
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Which statement is incorrect?
The principles are clear and precise
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A difference in the image location of an object between the left and right eyes is known as?

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Binocular disparity

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When looking out of a plane window, more distant clouds move slower than nearer clouds. What is this effect called?

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If two objects are in our visual field, with one being further back then the other, take up the same amount of our field of view. What do we perceive?

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Occlusion occurs when...

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