EXAM 2

Question 1

Which color pair is farthest apart in wavelength?

Answer 1

Blue and Red

Question 2

According to the opponent color theory, the perception of color is based on the output of _______ cones, each of them an opponency between _______ colors

Answer 2

three; two

Question 3

Mixing paints to create new colors is an example of _______ color mixing, while shining lights to create new colors is an example of _______ color mixing

Answer 3

subtractive; additive

Question 4

When white wine is tinted to have a rosé color, what flavors do people report?

Answer 4

Similar flavors to rose wine

Question 5

The tendency of a surface to appear the same color under a fairly wide range of illuminations is known as

Answer 5

color constancy

Question 6

In the case of a negative afterimage, a yellow stimulus would produce a ____________ after image

Answer 6

Blue

Question 7

________ is a color perception effect in which two colors bleed into each other, each taking on some. of the chromatic quality of the other

Answer 7

Color assimilation

Question 8

According to the principle of univariance, which genetic difference in color vision would cause someone to be truly color-blind?

Answer 8

Cone monochromat

Question 9

In HSB (hue, saturation, brightness) color space, how does red differ from pink?

Answer 9

Red has more saturation than pink

Question 10

Suppose you have a red surface and wait it to seem as red as possible. What sort of background should you put behind it, according to the color contrast effect?

Answer 10

Green

Question 11

Suppose a new, previously isolated culture is discovered and their language and their language only has four color wands. Which color is least likely to be one of the color terms in that language

Answer 11

Tan

Question 12

Which photoreceptors are most active when looking at a beautiful sunset?

Answer 12

L-cones

Question 13

Which photoreceptors are most active when looking at a green forest?

Answer 13

M-cones

Question 14

Which depth cue can provide information about precise distance from the observer

Answer 14

Familiar size

Question 15

A random dot stereogram contains

Answer 15

no monocular cues

Question 16

During free fusion, the eyes __________ in order to view a stereogram without a stereoscope

Answer 16

converge or diverge

Question 17

If a camera judges the distance of an object based on the lens setting that causes the object to appear in focus, then the camera is using the depth cue of

Answer 17

accommodation

Question 18

Using the depth cue of _______ you can tell how far away something is based on how much detail is visible in the elements on the ground between you and the object

Answer 18

texture gradient

Question 19

The “line cancellation test” is used to assess

Answer 19

neglect

Question 20

When measuring reaction time (RT), we measure the

Answer 20

time from the onset of a stimulus to a response

Question 21

Change blindness is a failure to

Answer 21

notice a change between two scenes

Question 22

Looking around a room and trying to find the coffee mug that you misplaced is an example of

Answer 22

visual search

Question 23

If you search for a yellow square among a bunch of blue squares, what is your RT set size slope, approximately?

Answer 23

0 ms/item

Question 24

If a male patient with right parietal lobe damage were to wipe their face with a napkin after a meal, what might happen?

Answer 24

They might wipe the right side of their face but not their left

Question 25

Research suggests that you could reduce the magnitude of your attentional blink by

Answer 25

playing action video games

Question 26

Suppose you are picking up your friend from the airport. You watch people exit from the terminal while you search for your friend. In terms of visual search, your friend is the _______ and all the other people are _______

Answer 26

target; distractors

Question 27

_______ is the illusion that a stationary object is moving and occurs after prolonged exposure to a moving object

Answer 27

Motion aftereffect

Question 28

When one makes a saccadic eye movement, there is a(n) _______ sensitivity known as saccadic suppression

Answer 28

reduction of visual

Question 29

When fixating a central target, stationary targets in the periphery will seem to disappear when there is a global moving pattern superimposed. This is known as the phenomenon of

Answer 29

motion-induced blindness

Question 30

The motion we interpret as people moving around from a few animated dots is called _______ motion

Answer 30

biological

Question 31

Damage to area MT/V5 can result in this neurological disorder, in which you no longer perceive motion

Answer 31

Akinetopsia

Question 32

When you watch a bicyclist ride down the street, which kind of eye movement are you using?

Answer 32

Smooth pursuit

Question 33

Imagine that you are at Niagara Falls, staring at the falling water for a few minutes. When you look away from the water at the crowd of people, the people seem to be floating upward. What phenomenon have you just experienced?

Answer 33

Motion aftereffect

Question 34

Which type of eye movements do we make while reading a book?

Answer 34

Saccadic

Question 35

Motion capture in movies, in which points of light on each joint of the body allow computers to register the motion of actors, is which kind of motion?

Answer 35

Biological motion

Question 36

The marquee outside of a theater has lights that blink on and off in rapid succession, leading to the impression that the lights are moving around the marquee. This is an example of which type of motion?

Answer 36

Apparent motion