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Perception (The Eye) Quiz on Perception-The Eye, created by hollymini on 05/09/2013.
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Question 1

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What is perception?
Answer
  • The way the eyes see an object that's detected by the eye?
  • The way the brain makes sense of the visual image that's detected by the eye?

Question 2

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What do the rods in the eyes do?
Answer
  • Detect colour?
  • Detects light, even in really dim light.

Question 3

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What does the optic nerve do? and where is it?
Answer
  • transfers information from the rods and cones to the brain via the optic nerve. It's located at the back of the eye.
  • transfers information from the rods and cones to the brain via the optic nerve. It's located near the front of the eye, going upwards.
  • It's located at the back of the eye and transfers information from just the rods to the brain via the optic nerve.
  • transfers information from just the cones to the brain via the optic nerve. located in the middle of the eye

Question 4

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What do cones do?
Answer
  • Detect colour?
  • Detect light, even in really dim light?

Question 5

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Which cell would you use to detect a bird flying at night?
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  • Cone
  • Rod

Question 6

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Where are the light-sensitive cells in the eyes?
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  • Back and front
  • Sides
  • Middle and back
  • Centre and edge

Question 7

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Which cell would you use to detect the colour of the bird in bright daylight?
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  • Cone
  • Rod

Question 8

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Where is the blind spot?
Answer
  • Where the optic nerve leaves?
  • The sides of the eyes

Question 9

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The cross-shape where some of the information from the left and right eye crosses over to pass into the opposite side of the brain. What is the cross shaped area called?
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  • Optic nerve
  • Optic Chiasma

Question 10

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What is the visual cortex?
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  • The area at the back of the brain that interprets visual information.
  • The area at the right-hand of the brain that interprets movement.

Question 11

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Size Constancy......?
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  • Perceiving an object as the same size even when its distance from us changes.
  • Perceiving an object as bigger or smaller than it originally was when the distance changes
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