Multiple choice, previous exam Flashcards
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With increasing receptor convergence you get… resolution and..sensitivity.
D: Decreasing: Increasing
According to the multichannel model of vision (Campbell & Robson, 1968)
B: The visual system decomposes the white light into multiple spectral colours
Rods of the retina
C: are mostly located at the peripheral regions of the retina
As a rule.. animals have…-placed eyes which… binocular overlap
Predator: frontally: Maximize
The constructive nature of perception refers to fact that
C: perception is based on knowledge and experience
Which of the following brain areas it NOT part of the visual system?
C: STG
Which of the following is a classical psychophysical method used by Fechner?
B: Method of constant stimuli
Mullers doctrine of specific nerve energies states that:
The nature of a sensation depends on which sensory fibers were stimulated
The theory of object recognition that argues for multiple stored views of an object is called:
D: view-based recognition
The size of the receptive field of retinal ganglion cells is
D: bigger on the periphery than on the center of retina
What is transduction?
The transformation of physical stimulus into neural signal
Which of the following structures is NOT part of the eye?
Optic chiasm
Which of the following is FALSE about the fovea?
Characterized by high convergenze
Psychophysics is the scientific discipline that
D: relates a sensory stimulus to a perceptual event
A specific position on the retina, where the presence of light can influence the response of a ganglion cell is the
D: receptive field
Information from the left visual field goes to…. brain areas
Right
Visual cortex is the … Lobe
Occipital
Which of the following is NOT a gestalt principle of perceptual organization?
Contrast
Simple cells in the visual cortex respond selectively to:
Borders having a specific orientation and specific positioning
What does d’ (d prime) express in the signal detection theory:
Sensory capacities of the subject
