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Chapter: Chapter 5: Multiple Choice

Multiple Choice

1. The visible spectrum is that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that ranges from _____
nm.
A) 100 to 300
B) 300 to 600
C) 400 to 700
D) 800 to 1000

Ans: C
Level: Easy
Page: 156
Topic: Light and Color

2. _____ is the intensity of the light at each wavelength in the visible spectrum.
A) The color circle
B) Spectral reflectance
C) Spectral power distribution
D) Spectral sensitivity function

Ans: C
Level: Easy
Page: 157
Topic: Spectral Power Distribution
3. When a light source emits a wide range of different wavelengths, it is called _____ light.
A) heterochromatic
B) monochromatic
C) achromatic
D) multivariate

Ans: A
Level: Easy
Page: 157
Topic: Spectral Power Distribution

4. _____ light is a heterochromatic light source that contains proportionately more long-
wavelength light than sunlight does.
A) Flashbulb
B) Fluorescent
C) Incandescent
D) Candle

Ans: C
Level: Moderate
Page: 157
Topic: Spectral Power Distribution

5. White light is also called _____ light.

A) achromatic
B) dichromatic
C) monochromatic
D) trichromatic

Ans: A
Level: Easy
Page: 157
Topic: Spectral Power Distribution
6. The perceived color of an object depends on:
A) how it absorbs light.
B) how it transmits light.
C) the brightness of the light source.
D) the SPD of the light source.

Ans: D
Level: Moderate
Page: 158
Topic: Spectral Reflectance

7. A gray piece of paper and a white piece of paper have reflectance curves that are
approximately horizontal lines because they:
A) absorb the same overall amount of light.
B) reflect a greater percentage of low-wavelength light.
C) absorb a greater percentage of longer-wavelength light.
D) reflect about the same percentage of all wavelengths.

Ans: D
Level: Moderate
Page: 158
Topic: Spectral Reflectance

8. If a white light is shone onto a surface that only reflects wavelengths below 500 nm, the
surface will appear to be:
A) red.
B) blue.
C) green.
D) yellow.

Ans: B
Level: Difficult
Page: 158
Topic: Spectral Reflectance
9. _____ is the proportion of light that a surface reflects, rather than absorbs, at each
wavelength.
A) Color constancy
B) Spectral power distribution
C) Spectral reflectance
D) Color vision

Ans: C
Level: Easy
Page: 158
Topic: Spectral Reflectance

10. _____ is the perceptual characteristic MOST closely associated with the wavelength of light.
A) Hue
B) Saturation
C) Brightness
D) Frequency

Ans: A
Level: Easy
Page: 159
Topic: Dimensions of Color: Hue, Saturation, and Brightness

11. A 650-nm light would be perceived as _____, while a 550-nm light would appear _____.
A) blue; green
B) red; blue
C) green; yellow
D) red; green

Ans: D
Level: Easy
Page: 159
Topic: Color Circle and Color Solid

12. A color solid adds the vertical dimension to represent:

A) hue.
B) saturation.
C) brightness.
D) wavelength.

Ans: C
Level: Moderate
Pages: 159–160
Topic: Color Circle and Color Solid

13. Blue paint looks blue because it:

A) absorbs the shorter wavelengths.
B) reflects the longer wavelengths.
C) absorbs the longer wavelengths.
D) reflects the shorter wavelengths.

Ans: D
Level: Moderate
Page: 160
Topic: Color Mixtures

14. Mixing blue and yellow paint gives the appearance of green because:
A) blue paint absorbs the shorter wavelengths, while yellow paint absorbs the longer
wavelengths.
B) blue paint absorbs the longer wavelengths, while yellow paint absorbs the shorter
wavelengths.
C) blue paint and yellow paint both absorb the medium wavelengths.
D) blue paint reflects the longer wavelengths, while yellow paint reflects the shorter
wavelengths.

Ans: B
Level: Moderate
Page: 160
Topic: Color Mixtures

15. Julie is making slime with her kids. She starts with white, and in order to create
green slime, she adds blue and yellow food coloring. This process of creating green is
called _____ color mixing.
A) subtractive
B) additive
C) metameric
D) complementary

Ans: A
Level: Difficult
Page: 160
Topic: Color Mixtures

16. Additive color mixing would involve mixing different:

A) colored crayons.
B) light sources.
C) inks.
D) colored paints.

Ans: B
Level: Moderate
Pages: 160–161
Topic: Color Mixtures

17. With an additive color mixture, mixing red and green light on a white surface produces:
A) blue.
B) red.
C) white.
D) yellow.

Ans: D
Level: Moderate
Page: 161
Topic: Color Mixtures

18. How many degrees apart are complementary colors on the color circle?
A) 360
B) 180
C) 90
D) 45

Ans: B
Level: Easy
Pages: 161–162
Topic: Color Mixtures

19. According to the principle of additive color mixing, an example of

complementary colors would be:
A) cyan and red.
B) red and green.
C) cyan and yellow.
D) magenta and red.

Ans: A
Level: Moderate
Page: 162
Topic: Color Mixtures

20. _____ are any two stimuli that are physically different but perceived as identical.
A) Metamers
B) Isomers
C) Phosphenes
D) Pixels

Ans: A
Level: Easy
Page: 163
Topic: Trichromatic Color Representation

21. Photopigments in M-cones are:

A) sensitive to light with a wavelength of 900 nm.
B) sensitive to light with a wavelength of 250 nm.
C) sensitive to light across nearly the entire spectrum.
D) insensitive to wavelengths greater than 550 nm.
Ans: C
Level: Moderate
Page: 165
Topic: Trichromatic Color Representation

22. With regard to cones, the principle of univariance states that the absorption of one photon
of light results in:
A) a varied response, depending on the intensity of light.
B) the same response, regardless of the wavelength of light.
C) a varied response, depending on the wavelength of light.
D) the same response, regardless of the intensity of light.

Ans: B
Level: Moderate
Page: 165
Topic: Trichromatic Color Representation

23. The absolute sensitivity of S-cones is:

A) higher than for M-cones or L-cones.
B) lower than for rod photoreceptors.
C) higher than it is for M-cones but lower for L-cones.
D) equal to that for M-cones or L-cones.

Ans: B
Level: Moderate
Page: 165
Topic: Trichromatic Color Representation

24. An individual with only M-cones:

A) is sensitive to changes in the wavelengths of light but not the intensity.
B) can achieve metameric color matching with only certain wavelengths of light.
C) can achieve metameric color matching by adjusting the intensity of light.
D) cannot perform metameric color matching.

Ans: C
Level: Moderate
Pages: 166–167
Topic: Trichromatic Color Representation

25. The _____ explains why night vision is color-blind.

A) opponent color representation
B) principle of univariance
C) concept of additive mixtures
D) hue-cancellation technique

Ans: B
Level: Easy
Page: 167
Topic: Trichromatic Color Representation
26. A person with only M-cones and L-cones:
A) cannot adjust the intensity of a single comparison light to match the color of one
monochromatic test light.
B) cannot perform metameric color matching with two monochromatic comparison lights.
C) generally perceives two different wavelengths as only one color.
D) is truly color blind.

Ans: A
Level: Moderate
Pages: 167–169
Topic: Trichromatic Color Representation

27. How many monochromatic comparison lights do people with normal color vision
require to match an arbitrary monochromatic test light?
A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four

Ans: C
Level: Easy
Page: 169
Topic: Trichromatic Color Representation

28. The mosaic of the three types of cones within the human eye can be directly visualized
using a technique called:
A) retinal densitometry.
B) metameric color matching.
C) hue cancellation.
D) the Ishihara test.

Ans: A
Level: Easy
Page: 169
Topic: Trichromatic Color Representation
29. Research has shown that the proportion of _____ in the retina is fairly small compared
with the other types of photoreceptors.
A) rods
B) S-cones
C) M-cones
D) L-cones

Ans: B
Level: Easy
Page: 169
Topic: Trichromatic Color Representation

30. Which statement is TRUE regarding trichromatic color representation?

A) The three cone types limit the creation and perception of all the colors associated with
wavelengths in the visible spectrum.
B) The three cone types have the same spectral sensitivity function that spans part of the
visible spectrum.
C) The amount of light at every wavelength at every point in the retina can be measured.
D) Many pairs of lights that are physically different in their wavelength composition are
perceived as identical.

Ans: D
Level: Difficult
Pages: 169–170
Topic: Trichromatic Color Representation

31. Which observation constituted evidence for the process of opponent color
representation?
A) Colors observed in the afterimages are the other member of the opponent color pairs.
B) Colors often appear to be mixtures of two opponent colors but never appear to be mixtures of
two nonopponent colors.
C) People sort a stack of differently colored cards into three piles—red, green, and
blue.
D) Ewald Hering discovered a fourth cone type (for yellow wavelength) using retinal
densitometry.
Ans: A
Level: Moderate
Pages: 170–171
Topic: Opponent Color Representation

32. According to the text, a color called reddish green CANNOT be imagined
because:
A) red and green are two nonopponent colors.
B) red and green are both nonprimary colors.
C) red and green are two opponent colors.
D) red and green respond to the same cone photopigment.

Ans: C
Level: Moderate
Page: 171
Topic: Opponent Color Representation

33. _____ is an experimental technique where a person cancels out any perception of a particular
color in a test light by adding light of another color.
A) Metameric color matching
B) Color assimilation
C) Photopigment bleaching
D) Hue cancellation

Ans: D
Level: Easy
Page: 171
Topic: Opponent Color Representation

34. Physiological support for opponent color representation comes from:

A) the discovery of two types of cones in the fish retina that responded in similar ways to
different wavelengths.
B) the observation that people sorted a stack of cards into four piles of colors, rather than three.
C) measurements of neurons in the ventral geniculate nucleus of rats that responded to color in
an opponent fashion.
D) confirmation of the existence of neural circuits involved in the opponent color representation
process.

Ans: D
Level: Moderate
Page: 173
Topic: Opponent Color Representation

35. Which statement is TRUE regarding photopigment bleaching?

A) Color assimilation is a form of photopigment bleaching.
B) It is one of the primary mechanisms of dark and light adaptation.
C) It helps in correctly perceiving the color of a surface under different illuminants.
D) It is a method for measuring the amount of light at each wavelength absorbed by a foveal
cone.

Ans: B
Level: Difficult
Page: 175
Topic: Opponent Color Representation

36. _____ results from exposure to relatively intense light consisting of a narrow range of
wavelengths.
A) Chromatic adaptation
B) Color constancy
C) Lightness constancy
D) Hue cancellation

Ans: A
Level: Easy
Page: 176
Topic: Opponent Color Representation

37. According to the phenomenon of color contrast, which surrounding color would make blue
appear BRIGHTEST?
A) red
B) green
C) blue
D) yellow

Ans: D
Level: Moderate
Page: 177
Topic: Color Contrast and Color Assimilation

38. _____ is the tendency to see a surface as having the same color under illumination by lights
with different spectral power distributions.
A) Color assimilation
B) Color constancy
C) Lightness constancy
D) Light contrast

Ans: B
Level: Easy
Page: 179
Topic: Color Constancy

39. _____ is an intrinsic property that typically does not change, whereas the _____ of the light
reflected from an object changes whenever the illumination changes.
A) Reflectance; SPD
B) SPD; reflectance
C) Wavelength; reflectance
D) Intensity; polarization

Ans: A
Level: Moderate
Page: 179
Topic: Color Constancy

40. In the image given below, squares _____ reflect the same physical intensity of light.
A) A and B
B) A and C
C) B and C
D) A, B, and C

Ans: B
Level: Moderate
Page: 181
Topic: Lightness Constancy

41. _____ is the tendency to see a surface as having the same perceived reflectance
under illumination by very different amounts of light.
A) Lightness constancy
B) Lightness assimilation
C) Color constancy
D) Color assimilation

Ans: A
Level: Moderate
Page: 181
Topic: Lightness Constancy

42. According to the ratio principle of lightness constancy, the perceived lightness
of a region is based on the:
A) relative intensity of the illuminating light.
B) absolute amount of light reflected from the region and its surround.
C) difference in color between the region and its surround.
D) relative amounts of light reflected from the region and its surround.

Ans: D
Level: Difficult
Page: 181
Topic: Lightness Constancy

43. Which statement is TRUE regarding inherited deficiencies of color vision?

A) They affect females much more frequently than males.
B) The lack of M-cones and L-cones is due to a defect on the X chromosome.
C) They occur when a person is born without rods in the retina.
D) There are two categories of these deficiencies—night blindness and trichromacy.

Ans: B
Level: Moderate
Page: 183
Topic: Inherited Deficiencies of Color Vision

44. Which statement is TRUE regarding rod monochromats?

A) They have no rods and must rely only on cone vision.
B) About 0.002 percent of the population is suffering from rod monochromacy.
C) Only certain colors can be perceived by rod monochromats.
D) They have low sensitivity toward bright glaring lights.

Ans: B
Level: Moderate
Page: 184
Topic: Inherited Deficiencies of Color Vision

45. A person suffering from protanopia lacks:

A) M-cones.
B) S-cones.
C) L-cones.
D) L-cones and M-cones.
Ans: C
Level: Moderate
Page: 184
Topic: Inherited Deficiencies of Color Vision

46. Dichromacy refers to the condition where a person:

A) is missing two types of cones.
B) has only two types of cones.
C) has one type of rod and one type of cone.
D) can see two of the three Ishihara test symbols.

Ans: B
Level: Moderate
Page: 184
Topic: Inherited Deficiencies of Color Vision

47. Achromatopsia is:

A) genetically inherited only by females.
B) genetically inherited only by males.
C) the loss of night vision.
D) caused by brain damage.

Ans: D
Level: Easy
Page: 185
Topic: Cortical Achromatopsia: Color Blindness from Brain Damage

48. The technique of pointillist painting was adopted to:

A) avoid the dimming effect of subtractive color mixtures.
B) avoid the dimming effect of additive color mixtures.
C) highlight the brushstrokes of the painters.
D) expand the range of colors by using synthetic pigments.

Ans: A
Level: Moderate
Page: 187
Test Bank for Sensation and Perception Second Edition

Topic: Pointillist Painting

49. Digital color video displays such as digital television and computer screens use _____
mixtures of three primary colors.
A) complementary
B) subtractive
C) additive
D) supplementary

Ans: C
Level: Moderate
Page: 187
Topic: Digital Color Video Displays

50. According to the text, digital color printing does NOT use _____ ink.
A) white
B) magenta
C) black
D) yellow

Ans: A
Level: Easy
Page: 188
Topic: Digital Color Printing

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