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The Olympic symbol, which is typically perceived as five distinctly colored, interlocked circles, best
illustrates the Gestalt principle of _____. - correct answer ✔✔simplicity
Chad is an art teacher who is teaching his students to mix paint to create different colors. He explains
that each blob of paint absorbs wavelengths and these wavelengths are still absorbed by the mixture.
Chad is teaching his students about _____. - correct answer ✔✔subtractive color mixture
Bryce is a graduate student who is conducting an experiment in which participants have to navigate a
corn maze. He finds that objects at corners where the participant had to decide which direction to turn
are more important for navigation. What are these objects known as? - correct answer ✔✔decision-
point landmarks
The cones in our retina are sensitive to wavelengths of light that correspond to: - correct answer
✔✔blue, green, and red
Shana admires the redness of her sweater while seated in a dark restaurant. She goes outside into the
bright sunlight and again notices how red her sweater is. Shana's perception of the color of her sweater
reflects the experience of color _____. - correct answer ✔✔constancy
Dr. Minder conducts an experiment where he measures participants' brain activity as they are viewing
various complex indoor and outdoor scenes. Which "mind reading" analytic method should Dr. Minder
use if he is interested in the meaning of the scenes? - correct answer ✔✔semantic encoding
When we see the color of an object, our brain is perceiving: - correct answer ✔✔The wavelengths of
light that are not absorbed by the object
Which sentence best describes newborn vision at birth? - correct answer ✔✔They are very nearsighted,
and so they can best see things at a short distance.
, Samantha, an artist, is drawing a cityscape that she sees off in the distance as well as the surroundings of
the park in which she is sitting. As she is drawing the trees and buildings, Samantha notes that there are
more vertical and horizontal lines than angled lines. These frequently-occurring characteristics of the
environment that Samantha perceives are known as _____. - correct answer ✔✔physical regularities
According to the ____ theory of color perception, color vision depends on the activity of three different
receptor mechanisms. - correct answer ✔✔trichromatic
Amy is examining how certain wavelengths of light pass through various fruit juices to create color. What
concept is illustrated in this process? - correct answer ✔✔selective transmission
Why do the balls appear to roll upward in each of the displays in this video? - correct answer
✔✔Because our visual interpretation of the orientation of the slopes is incorrect.
Carrie is a graduate student who studies parts of the brain that play important roles in the perception of
motion. Which area of the brain does Carrie study? - correct answer ✔✔medial temporal area
Humans are born with innate sensory abilities. However, some abilities are not yet fully developed at the
time of birth and continue to develop with experience and age. One way of measuring visual
development in infants is to determine how infants of different ages perform on the same task.
These videos show eye movement records of a 4-month old infant and a 6-month old infant who were
both presented with the same visual display. The infants were shown a ball that moved back and forth
behind an occluder.
What was different about the eye movements of 4- and 6-month olds? - correct answer ✔✔The 4-month
's eye movements did not follow the ball behind the occluder, but the 6-month old's did
John is looking at a sign that appears to have text scrolling across it. In actuality, the sign is made up of
stationary lights programmed to flash on and off in a way that looks like letters scrolling across the sign.
John's perceptual experience is called _____ movement. - correct answer ✔✔apparent
According to ____ theory, an image displacement signal occurs when an image moves across receptors in
the retina; a motor signal occurs when a signal is sent from the brain to the eye muscles; and a copy of
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