Psychology Mcqs
Semicircular canals are involved in which sense?

A. Auditory
B. Kinesthetic
C. Olfactory
D. Vestibular

The Ames room was specifically designed to test ________________?

A. Shape constancy
B. Size constancy
C. Motion parallax
D. Interposition

Receptor cells that are very sensitive to color are the _________________?

A. Rods
B. Bipolar cells
C. Cones
D. Ganglion cells

Gibson’s theory of motion perception centers primarily on the _______________?

A. Stroboscopic effect
B. Shape constancy
C. Relation of moving object to immobile background
D. Relation to phi-phenomenon to immobile background

If illusion is a misperception of stimulus then hallucination is ___________________?

A. Delusion
B. Auto-kinesis
C. Response in the absence of external stimulus
D. Accurate perception of an external stimulus

Weber’s law refers to ________________?

A. Stimulus thresholds
B. Sensory transduction
C. The tricolor theory
D. Reinforcement rate matching

All of the following are characteristics of light except _______________?

A. Photons
B. Waves
C. Intensity
D. Photoreception

Gibson and Walk used a ‘visual cliff’ experiment to study ______________?

A. Figure-ground discrimination
B. Depth perception
C. Feature detection
D. Signal detection theory