Brain and nervous system
Neurons and neurotransmitters
Visual Perception
Influences on Visual Perception
Random
100
Two parts that make up the central nervous system.
What is the brain and the spinal cord?
100
This is made up the components - soma, synapse, dendrites and axon terminals.
What is a neuron?
100
These visual receptors can both distinguish black and white.
What are rods and cones?
100
When an object moves nearer or farther from us, our perception of its size remains constant.
What is size constancy?
100
The title of Taylor Swift's new album revealed during her appearance on the New Heights podcast in August 2025.
What is The Life of a Showgirl?
200
Sensory neurons in your toes are part of this nervous system.
What is the Peripheral nervous system?
200
The direction of transmission of the neural impulse across a synapse.
What is from presynaptic neuron to postsynaptic neuron?
200
These cues allow interpretation of 2D images into 3D images.
What are depth cues?
200
The principles used to describe when our visual system perceives what we see as a meaningful whole.
What is Gestalt principles?
200
The two countries Miss Tebble will visit during the school holidays.
What is Cambodia and Vietnam?
300
This area in the brain plays a role in how we produce and interpret language.
What is Geschwind's territory?
300
The neurotransmitters that have key roles in Parkinson's disease.
What is dopamine and acetycholine?
300
This transmits impulses from the eye to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
300
In these ways, culture has been shown to influence our visual system for pictorial depth perception.
What is formal education and cultural norms?
(Also accept: education, cultural norms and expectations)
300
This social media platform, once called Twitter, changed its name in 2023.
What is X?
400
This part of the brain is central to emotion, aggression and implicit learning.
What is the amygdala?
400
This disease is characterised by memory loss, impaired acetylcholine functioning and amyloid plaques.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
400
These are responsible for vision in low light and for peripheral vision.
What is are rods?
400
In this type of visual illusion people or objects of similar size are perceived to be vastly different in size.
What is the Ames room illusion?
400
This Canadian pop star was discovered on YouTube and released hits like Baby and Peaches
What is Justin Bieber?
500
If damage occurs to this area of the brain, you can produce words but they are nonsensical?
What is Wernicke's area?
500
This type of synapse is likely to cause the target cell to fire resulting in an action potential.
What is an excitatory synapse?
500
The process in which photoreceptors convert light energy into neural impulses.
What is transduction?
500
An illusion where people perceive two lines of the same length as different.
What is the Ponzo illusion?
500
This 1986 film starring Paul Hogan made “That’s not a knife…” one of the most famous Aussie movie quotes of all time.
What is Crocodile Dundee?