1) Hudson showed drawings to: a) Black and white schooled and unschooled participants b) Unschooled children only c) Black schooled and unschooled participants only d) White South African schooled and unschooled participants only 2) A depth cue not present in Hudson's picture was: a) Motion parallax b) Linear perspective c) Occlusion d) Height in plane 3) Hudson's results support Gregory's theory because they show that: a) Perception must be direct b) Depth perception is mostly innate c) Perceptual set is the same in all cultures d) Depth cues can be learned 4) A weakness of Hudson's study was that: a) There were no depth cues in the drawings b) The pictures were presented on paper, which was unfamiliar to some participants c) It used drawings of unfamiliar situations d) The participants were from just one culture 5) Perceptual set is: a) How our perception of objects in the environment stays constant b) The brain's preference for certain aspects of the sensory environment c) When we work out how far away something is d) An example of a depth cue 6) Which materials did McGinnies use in his study? a) Drawings of hunters and animals b) Consonant syllables c) Neutral and taboo words d) Numbers 7) McGinnies called our brain's tendency to block out embarrassing words: a) Embarrassment b) Perceptual defence c) Galvanic skin response d) Taboo emotion 8) A strength of McGinnies' study was that it: a) Had no extraneous variables b) Used a subjective measure of emotion c) Used galvanic skin response to measure emotional arousal d) Used self-reported rating scales 9) The participants in Gilchrist and Nesberg's (1952) study had to: a) Identify taboo words b) Fill in a questionnaire c) Adjust the brightness of a light d) Eat some chocolate cake 10) Gilchrist and Nesberg's participants thought the study was about: a) Matching pictures b) Motivation c) Perceptual set d) Brightness 11) Depriving participants of food is an ethical issue because: a) Participants did not give their consent b) It may spoil the results of the study c) The study lacks control d) It causes participants some discomfort 12) A strength of Gilchrist and Nesberg's study was: a) It included a control group b) It used real food c) It used an every day real life task d) It used an objective measure of perceptual set 13) Bruner and Minturn tested the effects of expectation using: a) Depth cues b) Three dimensional pictures c) Photographs of everyday objects d) An ambiguous figure 14) The kind of stimulus Bruner and Minturn used in their study was: a) Ames room b) A fiction illusion c) An ambiguous figure d) Pictures of food 15) The study design Bruner and Minturn used was: a) Matched pairs b) Repeated measures c) Independent groups d) Controlled participants 16) A weakness of Bruner and Minturn's study was that: a) The task was not something that would occur in everyday life b) It had some serious ethical issues c) The stimulus was not very clear d) The participants had to draw the figure they thought they saw

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