3.1.2.6.3 Bruner and Minturn study of perceptual set Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 2

The 20 questions

1. What did the Bruner and Minturn study investigate regarding perception?

   • Depth perception
   • Ambiguous figures
   • Facial recognition
   • Colour constancy

2. Which factor is primarily examined in the Bruner and Minturn study?

   • Emotion
   • Culture
   • Motivation
   • Expectation

3. What factor was shown to shape perception of an ambiguous figure in Bruner and Minturn's study?

   • Retinal disparity
   • Sensory overload
   • Expectation
   • Binocular depth

4. What technique was used to create a perceptual set in Bruner and Minturn's study?

   • Deprivation
   • Conditioning
   • Habituation
   • Priming

5. What type of stimuli did Bruner and Minturn use to investigate perceptual set?

   • Ambiguous figures
   • Stereograms
   • Random dots
   • Optical illusions

6. What does Bruner and Minturn's study suggest about perception compared to sensory input alone?

   • It is innate
   • It is flexible
   • It is flawless
   • It is fixed

7. What is the psychological term for a readiness to perceive things in a particular way?

   • Visual constancy
   • Cognitive dissonance
   • Sensory adaptation
   • Perceptual set

8. Which process explains why prior words led participants to interpret an ambiguous figure in a specific way?

   • Consolidation
   • Shaping
   • Extinction
   • Priming

9. Which result would have contradicted the concept of perceptual set in Bruner and Minturn's study?

   • No change
   • Biased reading
   • Faster response
   • Higher error rate

10. Why can having a strong perceptual set sometimes lead to perceptual errors?

    • Retinal damage
    • Attention loss
    • Misinterpreting inputs
    • Sensory fatigue

11. Which key factor investigated by Bruner and Minturn relates to prior context?

    • Emotion
    • Expectation
    • Motivation
    • Culture

12. Which daily life phenomenon is best explained by the findings of Bruner and Minturn?

    • Context effects
    • Motion parallax
    • Figure-ground
    • Sensory adaptation

13. What type of stimuli were used in the Bruner and Minturn perceptual set study?

    • Optical illusions
    • Geometric shapes
    • Inkblot tests
    • Ambiguous figures

14. What psychological factor affecting perception was tested in the Bruner and Minturn study?

    • Culture
    • Emotion
    • Expectation
    • Motivation

15. Why is Bruner and Minturn's research considered key evidence in psychology?

    • Measured neural firing
    • Proved bottom-up processing
    • Mapped visual cortex
    • Demonstrated top-down processing

16. Which theoretical approach to perception aligns most closely with Bruner and Minturn's study?

    • Direct
    • Nativist
    • Constructivist
    • Gibsonian

17. What defines an ambiguous figure in perceptual research?

    • Optical illusion
    • Hidden depth
    • Fixed meaning
    • Multiple interpretations

18. Which factor in perceptual set is investigated by the Bruner and Minturn study?

    • Culture
    • Expectation
    • Motivation
    • Emotion

19. What did the Bruner and Minturn study use as ambiguous stimuli to test expectation?

    • Lines of length
    • Faces and vases
    • Food pictures
    • Letters and numbers

20. In Bruner and Minturn's study, what role did prior context play in perception?

    • Reduces fatigue
    • Alters emotion
    • Creates expectation
    • Improves memory

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