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Optical illusions
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1
wearing horizontally striped clothes will make the wearer appear taller and slimmer – _________ to fashion advice.
apart from
either way
different
contrary
2
Visual, or optical, illusions show us that our minds tend to make assumptions about the world
False
True
3
The 20th century
saw little in the way of a breakthrough
was a ground-breaking time
saw many misguided attempts to find a ‘unifying theory’ of illusions.
4
Helmholtz first realised that our eyes make rapid movements called _________
twitches
collide
saccades
5
early illusions were of interest because they went against the prevailing view that you could understand vision if
you understood the way an image is fotrmed in the eye
you understood how neurons transmit signals
you understood visual pathologies
6
In the early 2000s there was a resurgence in illusion research, including
the undersstanding of how we process time
the undersstanding of how we process paintings
the undersstanding of how we process music
the undersstanding of how we process sounds
7
Mark Changizi, a theoretical neurobiologist, believes the brain may make predictions about your surroundings in order to
perceive the past
perceive the present
percieve illusions
perceive the future
8
consider the Hermann grid: we see grey dots in the intersections between the white and black grid because they are there
False
True
9
Our mind takes shortcuts because...
nerve endings in our eyes don't function properly
our visual system remains too limited to tackle all of the information
the space between neurons is too small
10
The ___________ illusion, for example, revealed that our brain makes judgements about size using adjacent objects..
Ponzo
Kanizsa Triange Illusion
Ebbinghaus
Muller-Lyer Illusion
11
Like a train track, the slanted lines make us believe the bottom line is further away.
False
True
12
Victor Vasarely is widely __________ as the father of "Op-Art"
viewed
seen
considered
regarded
13
The Hering illusion features radial lines that give the illusion of ___________
movement
on line being shorter than the others
perspective
14
It shows that identically sized lines can appear to be different lengths when placed between converging parallel lines.
Ebbinghaus illusion
Ponzo illusion
Hermann Grid illusion
Muller-Lyer illusion
15
The literature on illusions is littered with over-interpretations
True
False
16
wearing horizontally striped clothes will make the wearer appear taller and slimmer
False
True
17
recent advances...
don't mean that illusions can be expained
mean thet there's no need of doing more research
mean that every illusion can be explained nowadays
18
Aristotle noted that "our senses can be trusted but they can easily be ________"
fooled
found
wrong
mistaken
19
how the brain encodes and combines this information into a coherent picture
was discovered by Susana Martinez-Conde
has recently been explained
is still poorly understood
20
The real boom in illusions began in the __________
21st Century
12th Century
17th Century
19th Century
