The light-sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing the rods and cones, is the ______________?

A. Optic nerve
B. Cornea
C. Retina
D. Iris

Movement illusions such as the moon-cloud illusion, in which the moon appears to race from cloud to cloud, illustrate the role in visual perception played by ______________?

A. Binocular disparity
B. A frame of reference
C. A linear perspective
D. Bottom-up processing

The opponent-process theory is to our sense of color as the gate-control theory is to our sense of ____________?

A. Smell
B. Touch
C. Kinesthesia
D. Pain

Hair cells are to audition as _______________ are to vision?

A. Pupils
B. Corneas
C. Rods and cones
D. Bipolar cells

Which of the following would pay a role in quickly alerting you to a gas leak in your home?

A. Vestibular sacs
B. Olfactory receptors
C. Bipolar cells
D. Basilar membrane

A police officer is a tense and possibly dangerous situation may “see” a hammer in a man’s hand as a gun. This mistake could be attributed to the officer’s __________________?

A. Perceptual set
B. Selective viewing
C. Stroop interference
D. Frame illusion

A Gestalt is best described as a/an ________________?

A. Binocular cue
B. Interposition
C. Perceptual adaptation
D. Organized whole

The size of the pupil is controlled by the _______________?

A. Lens
B. Retina
C. Cornea
D. Iris

The perceptual processes that make use of preexisting knowledge to interpret new information are called _______________?

A. Sensory processes
B. Top-down processes
C. Bottom-up processes
D. Parallel processes

Which receptor cells most directly enable us to distinguish different wavelengths of light?

A. Rods
B. Cones
C. Bipolar cells
D. Feature detectors