Psychology GCSE Edexcel Topic A - How do we see the world? | Difficult

Question 1 of 14

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Tick the boxes that correctly describe how the retina, optic nerve and optic chiasma work.

Select one or more of the following:

The retina is a region that contains photoreceptors that convert light into electric impulses, which are sent into the optic nerve by using rods and cones.
The retina is the red, internal region of the eye that converts light into electric impulses, in which rods and cones extract visual information and transfer it to the retina to maintain a continuous image.
The optic nerve is a bundle of nerves that carry visual information from the eye, sending that information to the visual cortex, the back of the brain, in which the visual cortex makes sense of the visual information from the optic nerve.
The optic nerve is a bundle of nerves that extracts information from the visual cortex, the back of the brain transferring that data into the eyes.
The optic chiasma is the region where both optic nerves cross over. The optic nerves switch places, transferring information from one another, flipping images back right side up after the lens refracts and makes images upside down
The optic chiasma is the region where both optic nerves cross over. The optic nerves are then bundled up into a helix, allowing information to be evenly distributed and shared. This ensures that upside down images are flipped right side up.

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Question 2 of 14

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Why is there a blind spot on our eye?

Select one of the following:

It's because the blind spot is where the optic nerve leaves the eye.
It's because the retina has created no photoreceptors within the blind spot.

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Question 3 of 14

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Drag and drop words to complete these sentences.

❌ is a biological process, which is about what ❌.

❌ is a psychological process, which is about how our brain makes sense of ❌ coming from our eyes.

❌ are the way our eyes and the brain adapt to seeing visual information from clues in the environment, in which we learn to adapt ourselves through experience. There are two types of depth cues:

❌, meaning one, where you can see in ❌.

❌, meaning two, where you can see in ❌.

Drag and drop to complete the text.

Vision

we see from the eye

Perception

how we percieve information from our eye

visual information

cognitive information

information of images

Depth cues

Monocular depth cues

Binocular depth cues

two dimensions

three dimensions

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Question 4 of 14

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"The dominant eye is a binocular depth cue." True or false? Choose a reason why.

Select one or more of the following:

True
False
Using both eyes and making a hole with your hand, looking at the hole from the centre and closing one eye at a time indicates which eye is the dominant eye depending on how well each eye can see through the hole.
The dominant eye only requires one eye. This is because even if you have two eyes, when you have one eye, your brain will automatically assign that one eye as the dominant eye.

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Question 5 of 14

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Click on each orange point and select the correct answer.

What can you see in Rubin's Vase? Label the bottom node by what type of illusion it is.

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Question 6 of 14

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Tick the boxes which are the correct Gestalt laws.

Select one or more of the following:

Closure
Proximity
Distance
Continuity
Similarity
Figure and ground
Object and background
Smoothness
Difference

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Question 7 of 14

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Gregory's theory is about how we see things through monocular depth cues. True or false?

Select one of the following:

True
False

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Question 8 of 14

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Tick the boxes which correctly describe what Palmer (1972) is about.

Select one or more of the following:

There are 64 student participants which are a grouped sample.
There are 64 student participants across 3 different schools, coming from Grammar, Secondary, and Technical schools, which are evenly distributed across to create a matched sample.
Participants observe a photo of a kitchen for 2 seconds. After this, participants are then given a choice as to what they saw. They chose from: Bread, Mailbox, or Drum.
Participants observe a photo of a kitchen for 2 seconds. After this, participants are then given a choice as to what they saw. They chose from: Toaster, Chopping board, and Drum.
The conditions of the experiment were:
- Chose an object with an appropriate context and shape
- Chose an object with an innapropriate context, but has a similar shape
- Chose an object with an innapropriate context and different shape
- No interpretation given.
The conditions of the experiment were:
- Chose bread or toaster
- Chose mailbox or chopping board
- Chose drum
- No interpretation given.
Many of the participants were able to choose the correct object, the toaster. This is because they were given the schema of a kitchen, so what they often chose was an object with an appropriate context and shape.
Many of the participants chose the bread. This is because they were given the schema of a kitchen, so what they often chose was an object with an appropriate context and shape.

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Question 9 of 14

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The independent variable is the value you measure. True or false?

Select one of the following:

True
False

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Question 10 of 14

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Which is a way to measure validity?

Select one of the following:

Repeat the experiment multiple times in order to get the same result.
Matching your aim/hypothesis and experiment design in order to get the most accurate way of measuring what the experiment is supposed to measure.

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Question 11 of 14

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Safety is an ethical guideline? True or false?

Select one of the following:

True
False

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Question 12 of 14

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Drag and drop the appropriate words in the gaps.

Monocular depth cues:
Parallel lines that appear to converge into the distance is an example of ❌.

When objects appear to overlap one another by partially taking up their space, this is known as ❌.

The closer objects are to you, the bigger they are. The further away objects are to you, the smaller they are. This is known as ❌.

When we look at patterns on the floor, they appear to look more blurry and less detailed the further away we look at them. This is called ❌.

Objects usually appear further away the closer they are to the horizon. This is called ❌.

Drag and drop to complete the text.

linear perspective

superimposition

relative size

texture gradient

height in the visual plane

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Question 13 of 14

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What kind of experiment was Carmichael et al's? What's good about this type of experiment?
=== SELECT TWO ANSWERS ===

Select one or more of the following:

Lab experiment
Quasi experiment
This type of experiment allows for high levels of control, so the experiment can be fairly measured and tested for reliability.
This type of experiment used a natural experiment, which means that it very high amounts of realism.

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Psychology GCSE Edexcel Topic A - How do we see the world? | Difficult

Question 1 of 14

Tick the boxes that correctly describe how the retina, optic nerve and optic chiasma work.

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 2 of 14

Why is there a blind spot on our eye?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 3 of 14

Drag and drop to complete the text.

Explanation

Question 4 of 14

"The dominant eye is a binocular depth cue." True or false? Choose a reason why.

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 5 of 14

Click on each orange point and select the correct answer.

What can you see in Rubin's Vase? Label the bottom node by what type of illusion it is.

Explanation

Question 6 of 14

Tick the boxes which are the correct Gestalt laws.

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 7 of 14

Gregory's theory is about how we see things through monocular depth cues. True or false?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 8 of 14

Tick the boxes which correctly describe what Palmer (1972) is about.

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 9 of 14

The independent variable is the value you measure. True or false?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 10 of 14

Which is a way to measure validity?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 11 of 14

Safety is an ethical guideline? True or false?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 12 of 14

Drag and drop to complete the text.

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Question 13 of 14

What kind of experiment was Carmichael et al's? What's good about this type of experiment? === SELECT TWO ANSWERS ===

Select one or more of the following:

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Question 14 of 14

The Kanisza Triangle is a fiction illusion? True or False?

Select one of the following:

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What kind of experiment was Carmichael et al's? What's good about this type of experiment?
=== SELECT TWO ANSWERS ===