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51) When our perception of a stimulus, such as a misshapen letter or an image, depends on the context of the stimulus or our preconceptions, we are using ___________________ to interpret the stimulus. a. a perceptual constancy b. selective attention c. feature binding d. a perceptual set 52) Jordan and her friends are in the front row for a rock concert. During the concert, the lead singer moves all around the stage but Jordan continues to perceive him as the same height even though the image received in her eye and brain constantly changes. This illustrates which type of perceptual constancy? a. Colour constancy b. Location constancy c. Size constancy d. Shape constancy 53) The fact that you can easily recognize a picture of Mickey Mouse or Bart Simpson as that character, no matter what angle they are presented in during a cartoon, is an example of a. colour constancy. b. shape constancy. c. size constancy. d. location constancy. 54) We perceive that firefighters are wearing bright yellow jackets, independent of when we see them in the bright daylight or at night. This is due to the principle of _______________. a. colour constancy b. shape constancy c. size constancy d. location constancy 55) Clay has played professional soccer for seven years and is easily able to tune out the sound of the crowd and all other irrelevant sensory information during the game. Bruce is a rookie and is often distracted by what his opponents are saying and the mood of the crowd. Clay and Bruce are showing differing levels of a. selective attention. b. parallel processing. c. absolute thresholds. d. top-down processing. 56) According to Donald Broadbent’s research, selective attention acts as a a. trapdoor. b. safety net. c. key. d. filter. 57) The fact that Dale perceives a taxi cab to be bright orange during the day and bright orange at night demonstrates the concept of a. the binding problem. b. dark adaptation. c. perceptual set. d. colour constancy. 58) Savannah is sitting in the cafeteria at school talking to a group of her friends. She is paying attention to their conversation, but, all of the sudden, she hears her name in a conversation at a nearby table. Which of the following best describes Savannah’s experience? a. Dichotic listening b. Selective attention c. Cocktail party effect d. Shadowing 59) Victor is involved in an auditory experiment where he is being presented different messages to his right and left ear. He is asked to attend to the right ear, where he hears the message “The girl was really … bird on a wire”. The message played to Victor’s left ear was “After was wishing … scared of the dark”. Based on the technique called shadowing, when Victor is asked to repeat what he heard, what would he say? a. The girl was really bird on a wire. b. The girl was really scared of the dark. c. After was wishing scared of the dark. d. After was wishing bird on a wire. 60) The cocktail party effect and the technique of shadowing demonstrate that a. information we have filtered out of our attention is still being processed at some unconscious level. b. individual pathways of sense receptors are not cross-modal in their processing. c. selective attention is only allows us to process one channel of input at a time. d. we constantly engage in dichotic listening and attend to more than one message equally.