Visual perception

Question 1

Stimulus characteristics and what else are the biggest influencers of conscious visual perception?

Answer 1

Attention

Question 2

In this illusion of visual perception, movement occurs in the part of the visual field where attention was previously focused:

Answer 2

Shooting line illusion

Question 3

True or false: stimulus characteristics (i.e. colour, shape, size) cannot change visual perception in neurologically healthy people.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Which attentional paradigm best reflects how attention and stimulus features can change visual perception in neurologically healthy people?

Answer 4

Repetition blindness paradigm

Question 5

What was the main finding of Kanwisher et al.’s (1995) study, using the colour task to test repetition blindness?
a) there was less repetition on conditions where items were identical
b) Accuracy reporting right-hand items was lower on unrepeated and unattended conditions (54%)
c) Accuracy reporting right-hand items was higher on unrepeated and unattended conditions (81%)

Answer 5

c) Accuracy reporting right-hand items was higher on unrepeated and unattended conditions (81%)