Chapter 6 Practice Quiz 2

A  collicular damage.

B  spinal damage.

C  primary visual cortex damage.

D  retinal damage.

E  thalamic damage.

A  the dorsal route.

B  posterior parietal cortex.

C  V3.

D  MT/V5.

E  primary visual cortex.

A  distinguish among similar individuals.

B  distinguish among similar members of complex classes of visual stimuli.

C  recognize parts of faces.

D  recognize cows and birds.

E  recognize specific names of faces.

A  contrast vision is to color vision.

B  dorsal stream is to ventral stream.

C  visual perception is to spatial perception.

D  agnosia is to blindsight.

E  ventral stream is to dorsal stream.

A  inferotemporal cortex then to prestriate cortex.

B  inferotemporal cortex then to posterior parietal cortex.

C  posterior parietal cortex then to inferotemporal cortex.

D  dorsal prestriate cortex then to posterior parietal cortex.

E  dorsal prestriate cortex then to inferotemporal cortex.

A  serial processing.

B  hindsight.

C  binding.

D  completion.

E  hemianopsia.

A  primary visual cortex.

B  secondary visual cortex.

C  association cortex.

D  primary cortex.

E  paleocortex.

A  the parietal lobe.

B  secondary visual cortex.

C  primary visual cortex.

D  association cortex.

E  the occipital lobe.

A  complex cortical color cells.

B  simple cortical color cells.

C  cones.

D  dual-opponent color cells.

E  trichromatic color cells.

A  lights of the same wavelength appear to be the same color.

B  lights of the same wavelength appear to be the same color, regardless of their intensity.

C  complementary colors always look complementary.

D  an object appears to be the same color despite changes in the wavelengths of light that it is reflecting.

E  lights of different wavelengths appear to be different colors.

A  also known as the component theory.

B  supported by complementary afterimages.

C  supported by monochromatic colors.

D  a version of the opponent-process theory.

E  also known as the opponent theory.

A  color mixing.

B  edge perception.

C  wavelength.

D  color vision.

E  visual illusions.

A  more circular

B  less circular

C  bigger

D  more monocular

E  smaller

A  have rectangular receptive fields.

B  all of these

C  respond to contrast.

D  are unresponsive to diffuse light.

E  respond best to straight-line stimuli in a particular orientation.

A  contrast.

B  diffuse light.

C  circular edges.

D  monocular stimuli.

E  circles of light.

A  movement.

B  dots of light.

C  contrast.

D  straight lines.

E  circles.

A  starting at the periphery of a system and progressively studying neurons at “higher” and “higher” levels of the system.

B  defining the receptive fields of individual neurons.

C  all of these

D  none of these

E  determining which stimuli have the most effect on the firing of an individual neuron when they are presented in its visual field.

A  visual receptors adjacent to an edge on the more intense side receive less lateral inhibition than do receptors farther from that edge, and because visual receptors adjacent to the edge on the less intense side receive more lateral inhibition than do receptors farther from that edge.

B  visual receptors on the more intense side of an edge receive less lateral inhibition than receptors on the less intense side.

C  if A fires less than B, B must fire more than C.

D  visual receptors on the more intense side of an edge receive more lateral inhibition than receptors on the less intense side.

E  the visual receptors near an edge become hyperpolarized.