Chapter 6 Practice Quiz 2

A  retinal damage.

B  thalamic damage.

C  primary visual cortex damage.

D  collicular damage.

E  spinal damage.

A  posterior parietal cortex.

B  V3.

C  MT/V5.

D  primary visual cortex.

E  the dorsal route.

A  distinguish among similar individuals.

B  recognize specific names of faces.

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

D  recognize cows and birds.

E  recognize parts of faces.

A  agnosia is to blindsight.

B  ventral stream is to dorsal stream.

C  dorsal stream is to ventral stream.

D  contrast vision is to color vision.

E  visual perception is to spatial perception.

A  posterior parietal cortex then to inferotemporal cortex.

B  inferotemporal cortex then to posterior parietal cortex.

C  inferotemporal cortex then to prestriate cortex.

D  dorsal prestriate cortex then to posterior parietal cortex.

E  dorsal prestriate cortex then to inferotemporal cortex.

A  serial processing.

B  binding.

C  hemianopsia.

D  completion.

E  hindsight.

A  association cortex.

B  secondary visual cortex.

C  primary cortex.

D  paleocortex.

E  primary visual cortex.

A  secondary visual cortex.

B  the parietal lobe.

C  association cortex.

D  the occipital lobe.

E  primary visual cortex.

A  cones.

B  complex cortical color cells.

C  dual-opponent color cells.

D  trichromatic color cells.

E  simple cortical color cells.

A  lights of different wavelengths appear to be different colors.

B  complementary colors always look complementary.

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

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

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

A  supported by complementary afterimages.

B  also known as the opponent theory.

C  a version of the opponent-process theory.

D  supported by monochromatic colors.

E  also known as the component theory.

A  wavelength.

B  color vision.

C  visual illusions.

D  edge perception.

E  color mixing.

A  smaller

B  bigger

C  more circular

D  more monocular

E  less circular

A  respond to contrast.

B  have rectangular receptive fields.

C  are unresponsive to diffuse light.

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

E  all of these

A  contrast.

B  circular edges.

C  circles of light.

D  monocular stimuli.

E  diffuse light.

A  contrast.

B  circles.

C  straight lines.

D  movement.

E  dots of light.

A  none of these

B  all of these

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

D  defining the receptive fields of individual neurons.

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

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

B  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.

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

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

E  the visual receptors near an edge become hyperpolarized.