Chapter 6 Practice Quiz 2

A  collicular damage.

B  spinal damage.

C  retinal damage.

D  primary visual cortex damage.

E  thalamic damage.

A  the dorsal route.

B  MT/V5.

C  primary visual cortex.

D  posterior parietal cortex.

E  V3.

A  recognize parts of faces.

B  recognize cows and birds.

C  recognize specific names of faces.

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

E  distinguish among similar individuals.

A  visual perception is to spatial perception.

B  ventral stream is to dorsal stream.

C  dorsal stream is to ventral stream.

D  contrast vision is to color vision.

E  agnosia is to blindsight.

A  posterior parietal cortex then to inferotemporal cortex.

B  dorsal prestriate cortex then to inferotemporal cortex.

C  inferotemporal cortex then to prestriate cortex.

D  inferotemporal cortex then to posterior parietal cortex.

E  dorsal prestriate cortex then to posterior parietal cortex.

A  serial processing.

B  completion.

C  hemianopsia.

D  hindsight.

E  binding.

A  primary cortex.

B  secondary visual cortex.

C  primary visual cortex.

D  paleocortex.

E  association cortex.

A  association cortex.

B  the occipital lobe.

C  secondary visual cortex.

D  the parietal lobe.

E  primary visual cortex.

A  complex cortical color cells.

B  simple cortical color cells.

C  dual-opponent color cells.

D  cones.

E  trichromatic color cells.

A  lights of different wavelengths appear to be different colors.

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 the same wavelength appear to be the same color.

A  a version of the opponent-process theory.

B  also known as the opponent theory.

C  supported by complementary afterimages.

D  supported by monochromatic colors.

E  also known as the component theory.

A  visual illusions.

B  edge perception.

C  color mixing.

D  wavelength.

E  color vision.

A  less circular

B  more monocular

C  bigger

D  more circular

E  smaller

A  have rectangular receptive fields.

B  respond to contrast.

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

D  all of these

E  are unresponsive to diffuse light.

A  monocular stimuli.

B  circles of light.

C  circular edges.

D  contrast.

E  diffuse light.

A  straight lines.

B  movement.

C  circles.

D  dots of light.

E  contrast.

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

B  none of these

C  all of these

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

C  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.

D  the visual receptors near an edge become hyperpolarized.

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