Visual Perception in Psychology Quiz

Explore visual perception with 12 questions covering Gestalt principles, color vision, depth perception, and more. Test yourself now!

#1

Which part of the eye is responsible for detecting light?

Cornea
Lens
Retina
Optic nerve
#2

What term refers to the ability to perceive the three-dimensional shape of objects?

Depth perception
Color perception
Motion perception
Brightness perception
#3

Who proposed the Gestalt principles of visual perception?

Sigmund Freud
Max Wertheimer
Ivan Pavlov
B.F. Skinner
#4

Which theory of color vision suggests that color perception is based on the activity of three different receptor mechanisms sensitive to different ranges of wavelengths?

Trichromatic theory
Opponent-process theory
Place theory
Frequency theory
#5

Which part of the brain is primarily responsible for processing visual information?

Cerebellum
Hippocampus
Occipital lobe
Frontal lobe
#6

What term refers to the ability to perceive objects as having consistent shapes, sizes, colors, and brightness, even when the sensory input changes?

Visual constancy
Visual acuity
Visual adaptation
Visual illusions
#7

Which type of eye movement allows us to track moving objects smoothly?

Saccade
Vergence
Pursuit
Fixation
#8

What is the phenomenon called when we perceive continuous motion in a series of slightly varied images or objects?

Stroboscopic motion
Phi phenomenon
Apparent motion
Motion parallax
#9

Who introduced the concept of the 'figure-ground' relationship in visual perception?

Max Wertheimer
Wolfgang Köhler
Kurt Koffka
Edward Tolman
#10

What is the phenomenon where we perceive objects that are close together as belonging to a group?

Proximity
Closure
Similarity
Continuity
#11

Which term describes the tendency to perceive ambiguous figures as having more than one interpretation?

Perceptual set
Ambiguous figure-ground
Multistable perception
Perceptual organization
#12

Who proposed the theory of perceptual adaptation, which suggests that the brain can adjust to changes in sensory input?

Albert Bandura
Jerome Bruner
Richard Gregory
George Miller

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