Chapter 10: Perceiving depth and size

Question 1

perception based on:

Answer 1

a 2D image on the retina

Question 2

the cue approach to depth perception focuses on identifying information in the retinal image that is correlated with _________ in the scene.

Answer 2

depth

Question 3

occlusion is a cue that:

Answer 3

one object is in front of another

Question 4

what are the three major groups of cues?

Answer 4

oculomotor, monocular, binocular

Question 5

oculomotor cues are created by _______ and ________

Answer 5

convergence and accommodation

Question 6

monocular cues include _____ cues and _______ based cues

Answer 6

pictorial, motion-

Question 7

binocular disparity is:

Answer 7

the difference between the images received by our two eyes

Question 8

corresponding retinal points refer to:

Answer 8

the places on each retina that would overlap if one retina could be slid on top of the other

Question 9

a horopter is:

Answer 9

an imaginary surface that passes through the point of fixation and indicates the location of objects that fall on corresponding points on the two retinas

Question 10

angle of disparity is:

Answer 10

the difference between where an image falls o one eye and the corresponding point

Question 11

relative disparity:

Answer 11

the difference between an object’s absolute disparities

Question 12

stereopsis is the impression of _____ that results from information provided by ______ disparity

Answer 12

depth, binocular

Question 13

eliminating binocular neurons eliminates ______:

Answer 13

stereopsis

Question 14

visual angle represents:

Answer 14

the angle of an object relative to the observer’s eye

Question 15

Emmert’s law states the farther away an after image appears, the ______ it will seem.

Answer 15

larger

Question 16

crossed disparity refers to:

Answer 16

an object being closer to the observer than where they are looking (in front of the horopter)