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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Has been called the most important depth cue. Our eyes view objects from two slightly different angles - which allows us to create a 3-dimensional figure
Brightness
binoculary disparity
Weber'S Law
Mental set
2. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ewald Hering
Phi Phenomenon
Light
Lateral Inhibition
3. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
After light passes through receptors
Symmetry
Miss
Size Constancy
4. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Perceptual Development
interposition
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
5. Why do cones see better than rods?
Minimum principle
Proximity
Middle ear
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
6. Where half of all fibers from the optic nerve of each eye cross over and join the optic nerve from the other eye. This insures input from each eye will be put together in a full picture in the brain.
Optic Chasm
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Fechner'S Law
Autokinetic effect
7. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Visual Cliff
Structuralist Theory
Receptor Cells
Vision
8. humans best hear at
Hit
Neural Pathways
Correct Rejection
1000hz
9. Begins with the tympanic membrane (eardrum) which is stretch across the auditory canal. Behind this membrane are the Ossicles (3 small bones) - the last of which is the stapes. Sound vibrations bump against the tympanic membrane - causing the ossicl
Mental set
Perception
1000hz
Middle ear
10. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
Ponzo Illusion
Fechner'S Law
Response Bias
11. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Weber'S Law
Figure and ground relationship
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
12. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Neural Pathways
Continuation
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Purkinje shift
13. Allows the eyes to see contrast and prevents repetitive information from being sent to the brain. Once the receptor cell is stimulated - the others nearby are inhibited.
Purkinje shift
Lateral Inhibition
texture gradient
Optic Array
14. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Hue
Outer ear
Sensation
Timbre
15. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Proximity
Symmetry
Optic Chasm
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
16. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Robert Frantz
Gestalt Psychology
Photopigments
17. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Lateral Inhibition
Mental set
Lens
Vision
18. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Frequency
False alarm
The visual pathway
apparent size
19. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Ciliary Muscles
Visual Field
Linear perspective
E.H. Weber
20. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Nativist Theory
Reception
Moon Illusion
Mental set
21. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hue
Hit
Phi Phenomenon
Outer ear
22. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
James Gibson
E.H. Weber
Optic Array
Correct Rejection
23. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Photopigments
Optic Chasm
Proximity
24. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Symmetry
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Light
Ciliary Muscles
25. Is the way that perceived color brightness changes with the level of illumination in the room. With lower levels of illumination - the extremes of the color spectrum (especially red) are seen as less bright
Purkinje shift
Terminal Threshold
Light
Muller-Lyer Illusion
26. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Lateral Inhibition
Ciliary Muscles
Fechner'S Law
Continuation
27. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Response Bias
Lens
Ponzo Illusion
Absolute threshold
28. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Current thinking about sensation and perception
apparent size
Photopigments
Minimum principle
29. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Response Bias
Reception
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Optic Array
30. The most famous of all visual illusions. Two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of the orientation of the arrow marks at the end. Inward facing arrow marks make the line appear shorter than another line of the same length with ou
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Robert Frantz
interposition
Receptive Field
31. How people perceive objects in the way that they are familiar with them - regardless of changes in the actual retinal image. A book - for example - is perceived as rectangular in shape no matter what angle it is seen from.
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Ciliary Muscles
Constancy
1000hz
32. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Figure and ground relationship
1000hz
Visual Pathway
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
33. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Minimum principle
Miss
Purkinje shift
34. A theory for color vision. It suggests that two types of color sensitive cells exist: Cones that respond to blue-yellow colors and cones that respond to red-green. When one color of the cone is stimulated - the other is inhibited.
False alarm
Optic Chasm
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Receptor Cells
35. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
texture gradient
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Nativist Theory
Depth perception
36. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Neural Pathways
Gestalt Psychology
Phi Phenomenon
Cornea
37. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
E.H. Weber
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Muller-Lyer Illusion
38. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
Optic Array
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Vision
39. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
motion parallax
Inner ear
Figure and ground relationship
Gestalt Psychology
40. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Sensation
Neural Pathways
Retina
Cones
41. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Absolute threshold
apparent size
42. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
False alarm
43. The physical intensity of light
Ponzo Illusion
Proximity
Brightness
1000hz
44. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Figure and ground relationship
Amplitude
45. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Ciliary Muscles
McCollough Effect
Light
Fovea
46. Are particularly sensitive to dim light and are used for night vision. They are also concentrated along the sides of the retina - making them extremely important for peripheral vision
Response Bias
Rods
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Ponzo Illusion
47. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
apparent size
Cones
After light passes through receptors
Retina
48. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Perception
Figure and ground relationship
Correct Rejection
49. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Depth perception
Pragnanz
Reception
texture gradient
50. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Lens
James Gibson
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Muller-Lyer Illusion