Cognitive Psychology

Question 1

Which of the following accurately describes the stages of flow of visual information through the visual system?

Answer 1

Cones to bipolar cells to retinal ganglion cells to LGN to V1 to V2 to V3

Question 2

Which of the following stimuli would midget ganglion cells to be expected to respond best to?

Answer 2

A steady red square on a green background

Question 3

Human contrast sensitivity

Answer 3

Is highest for medium spatial frequencies and reduces substantially for high spatial frequencies

Question 4

The human visual system is colour constant in that perception of colours of surfaces does not change with changes in the colour of illumination. Which of the following does not contribute to colour constancy?

Answer 4

Detection of unusual or salient colours in scenes

Question 5

Gilchrist’s (2006) experiment on lightness constancy shows that

Answer 5

Interpretation of the 3D structure of the scene is important for lightness constancy

Question 6

What is false about anomalous trichromacy?

Answer 6

Anomalous trichromacy there are two versions of the S cones that have very similar sensitivities to wavelengths of light

Question 7

Which of these best describe how colour vision develops?

Answer 7

Infants can see some highly saturated colours at birth, and then their colour discrimination keeps improving until adolescence

Question 8

Perceptual narrowing is

Answer 8

An example of how the visual system adapts to early childhood environmental experiences to shape perceptual abilities

Question 9

The most preferred stimulus in Juricevic et al (2010) has colours which

Answer 9

Mimic the way that the colour varies in natural scenes (blueish to yellowish)