Lesson 3.1.2.4.2
3.1.2.4.2 Examples: Ponzo, Muller-Lyer, Rubin's vase, Ames Room, Kanizsa triangle, Necker cube Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 2
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Lesson 3.1.2.4.2, Examples: Ponzo, Muller-Lyer, Rubin's vase, Ames Room, Kanizsa triangle, Necker cube: 20 multiple choice questions for the AQA GCSE Psychology (8182), Unit 2: Perception, written with Revision Ninja.
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The 20 questions
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Which visual illusion features two equal lines placed between converging lines?
- Ames room
- Ponzo illusion
- Necker cube
- Müller-Lyer illusion
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Which visual illusion features lines with arrow-like fins at their ends?
- Müller-Lyer illusion
- Ponzo illusion
- Kanizsa triangle
- Rubin's vase
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Which ambiguous figure can be seen as either a vase or two faces?
- Kanizsa triangle
- Rubin's vase
- Ames room
- Necker cube
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Which illusion uses pac-man shapes to create the appearance of an invisible white triangle?
- Müller-Lyer illusion
- Necker cube
- Ponzo illusion
- Kanizsa triangle
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Which wire-frame drawing can flip between two different 3D cube orientations?
- Kanizsa triangle
- Ames room
- Rubin's vase
- Necker cube
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Through what feature must a viewer look to make the Ames room appear normal?
- A peephole
- A convex mirror
- A polarised lens
- A prism
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What visual phenomenon causes two people in an Ames room to appear vastly different sizes?
- Misapplied depth cues
- Figure-ground reversal
- Binocular rivalry
- Retinal disparity
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What type of visual illusion is the Kanizsa triangle?
- Misapplied depth cue
- Ambiguity
- Fiction
- Distortion
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Which visual illusion is explained by misapplied depth cues?
- Ponzo illusion
- Kanizsa triangle
- Necker cube
- Rubin's vase
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Which visual illusion is best classified as an ambiguous figure?
- Necker cube
- Ponzo illusion
- Kanizsa triangle
- Ames room
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What perceptual process allows Rubin's vase to switch between a vase and two faces?
- Figure-ground reversal
- Size constancy
- Retinal disparity
- Visual fiction
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In the Ponzo illusion, why does the top horizontal line appear longer?
- Brighter in colour
- Judged further away
- Surrounded by space
- Thicker in width
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Which visual illusion uses a distorted trapezoidal room to trick size perception?
- Müller-Lyer illusion
- Necker cube
- Ponzo illusion
- Ames room
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Which term describes an illusion where the brain creates shapes not in the image?
- Fiction
- Constancy
- Distortion
- Ambiguity
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Which visual illusion uses arrow fins to misapply depth cues?
- Rubin's vase
- Necker cube
- Ames room
- Müller-Lyer illusion
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Why does the Müller-Lyer illusion persist even when we know the lines are equal?
- Conscious visual thought
- Retinal fatigue
- Automatic depth cues
- Faulty optic nerve
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Which visual illusion features a wire-frame drawing that flips between two orientations?
- Müller-Lyer illusion
- Ames room
- Ponzo illusion
- Necker cube
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Which visual illusion demonstrates the effect of linear perspective on length perception?
- Kanizsa triangle
- Rubin's vase
- Necker cube
- Ponzo illusion
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Which visual illusion demonstrates the brain creating illusory contours to fill in a shape?
- Ponzo illusion
- Ames room
- Kanizsa triangle
- Müller-Lyer illusion
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How does the trapezoidal Ames room appear to a viewer looking through the peephole?
- Perfectly rectangular
- Upside down
- Severely distorted
- Circular and curved
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