Visual Perception Quiz

If you stand in the middle of a cobblestone street, the street will look coarse near your feet and finer if you look into the distance. This is called

• texture gradient

• linear perspective

• relative size

• relative motion

When traveling in a car, near objects seem to move past you faster than distant objects. This is called

• aerial perspective

• linear perspective

• relative size

• relative motion

You are sitting in the pit area at the Indianapolis 500. You closely watch one of the cars whiz around on the track in front of the seething mass of humanity crammed into the stands. You have organized this visual scene such that the race car is ________ and the people and the stands are ________.

• figure; ground

• ground; figure

• figure; common region

• common region; camouflage

The fact that objects that are near each other tend to be grouped together is known as

• closure

• continuation

• similarity

• proximity

Which of the following is considered a monocular cue for depth?

• convergence

• retinal disparity

• relative motion

• similarity

The tendency to group together objects that are the same size, shape, color, or form is known as

• closure

• continuation

• similarity

• nearness

The tendency to fill in gaps in the perception of a figure is called

• sensory completion

• closure

• figure-ground

• continuation

The organizational principle demonstrated by the stimuli below is known as

• continuity

• figure-ground

• similarity

• nearness

Interposition is the pictorial depth cue more commonly known as

• relative motion

• overlapping

• linear perspective

• relative motion

__________ processing is like putting together a picture puzzle you've never seen before.

• bottom-up

• top-down

• left-right

• selective