Unit 2: DIRT Quiz 1

1. 1. Because she was listening to the news on the radio, Mrs. Schultz didn't perceive a word her husband was saying. Her experience best illustrates

• a. choice blindness

• b. selective attention

• c. gestalt

• d. opponent-process theory

2. 2. The ability to pay attention to only one voice at a time is called
   

• a. gestalt

• b. change blindness

• c. frequency

• d. cocktail party effect

3. 3. Researchers found that 40 percent of people focused on repeating a list of challenging words failed to notice a change in the person speaking. This best illustrates

• a. blind spot

• b. difference threshold

• c. priming

• d. change blindness

4. 4. In 1972, a British newspaper published pictures of a “Loch Ness Monster.” Many people readily perceived photographs of a floating tree trunk as the partially submerged monster. This illustrates the powerful influence of

• a. feature detectors

• b. sensory adaptation

• c. interposition

• d. perceptual set

5. 5. Who emphasized that the whole may exceed the sum of its parts?

• a. evolutionary psychologists

• b. behaviorists

• c. gestalt psychologists

• d. psychanalysts

6. 6. One of the ways we perceive images is by organizing stimuli into an object seen against its surroundings. What is this perceptual tendency called?

• a. opponent-process theory

• b. binocular cue

• c. retinal disparity

• d. figure-ground

7. 7. The perceptual tendency to group together stimuli that are near each other is called

• a. interposition

• b. proximity

• c. perceptual set

• d. disparity

8. 8. The organization of two-dimensional retinal images into three-dimensional perceptions is called

• a. retinal disparity

• b. monocular cues

• c. perceptual constancy

• d. depth perception

9. 9. The convergence of parallel lines provides the distance cue known as

• a. interposition

• b. closure

• c. linear perspective

• d. continuity

10. 10. Renny knew the red tulip was closer to her than the yellow tulip because the red one cast a larger retinal image than the yellow one. This illustrates the importance of the distance cue known as

• a. relative size

• b. interposition

• c. proximity

• d. continuity