Quiz #8 Flashcards

1
Q

The condition of Zihl et al.’s patient, a 45-year-old woman known as L.M., who had cortical lesions that affected her motion perception, is called ___.

a.
prosopagnosia

b.
akinetopsia

c.
stroboscopia

d.
amblyopia

A

b.
akinetopsia

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Movies is to ___ as Waterfall illusion is to ___.

a.
apparent motion; induced motion

b.
real motion; apparent motion

c.
motion aftereffects; stroboscopic motion

d.
apparent motion; motion aftereffects

A

d.
apparent motion; motion aftereffects

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Javier looks at the moon and some clouds at night. He sees the moon moving through the clouds. This is an example of ___.

a.
induced motion

b.
the stroboscopic effect

c.
the Reichardt effect

d.
the Shedlock effect

A

a.
induced motion

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4
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Larsen et al. (2006) showed that the activation of brain areas is ___.

a.
higher in the MT area when viewing apparent motion than when perceiving real motion

b.
higher in the MT area when viewing real motion than when perceiving apparent motion

c.
similar when viewing apparent motion and real motion

d.
higher in the MST when viewing real motion than when viewing induced motion

A

c.
similar when viewing apparent motion and real motion

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5
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As Dore runs through the park, the flow signals that he is moving and not the environment. Gibson calls this ___.

a.
local disturbances in the optic array

b.
deletion in the optic array

c.
the global optical flow

d.
the bioptic flow

A

c.
the global optical flow

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6
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An afterimage when viewed in the dark appears to move when you move your eyes. Corollary Discharge Theory predicts this because ___.

a.
there is an IDS, but not a CDS

b.
there is no IDS, but there is a CDS

c.
there is no IDS and no CDS

d.
none of these answers will work here

A

b.
there is no IDS, but there is a CDS

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Mira gently pushes on her eye with her finger. Because her eye muscles push against the force of her finger, which keeps the image in the same location, she perceives the visual scene to ___.

a.
be jiggling

b.
be stationary

c.
have exaggerated depth

d.
be “shrinking”

A

a.
be jiggling

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8
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RW, the man who had vertigo when he moved his eye, had cortical damage that eliminated ___.

a.
corollary discharge signals

b.
image movement signals

c.
cortical magnification

d.
binocular cell firing

A

a.
corollary discharge signals

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9
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The ___ is demonstrated when you look through a circle you make with your fingers and move a pencil either horizontally or diagonally behind your fingers.

a.
Kinetic Depth Effect

b.
structure-from-motion phenomenon

c.
correspondence problem

d.
aperture problem

A

d.
aperture problem

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10
Q

The perceptual grouping of lights in biological motion has been shown to occur in the ___ area of the cortex.

a.
superior temporal sulcus

b.
lateral geniculate

c.
premotor

d.
anterior intraparietal

A

a.
superior temporal sulcus

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