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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Revolves around perception and asserts that people tend to see the world as comprised of organized wholes. The world is understood through top-down processing.
Pragnanz
After light passes through receptors
Gestalt Psychology
Receptive Field
2. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Perceptual Development
Visual Field
The visual pathway
Minimum principle
3. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Gestat Ideas
Miss
Receiver operating characteristic
Weber'S Law
4. Located by the cornea
binoculary disparity
Miss
Lens
Sensation
5. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Color constancy
Receiver operating characteristic
Robert Frantz
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
6. Consists of the bony labyrinth - a hollow cavity in the temporal bone of the skull with a system of passages comprising two main functional parts: The cochlea - dedicated to hearing; converting sound pressure patterns from the outer ear into electroc
Depth perception
Inner ear
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Visual Pathway
7. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Receiver operating characteristic
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Robert Frantz
8. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Moon Illusion
Frequency
Perceptual Development
Outer ear
9. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Impossible Objects
binoculary disparity
Receptor Cells
Symmetry
10. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Proximity
Neural Pathways
Terminal Threshold
11. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Lens
Hermann Von Hemholtz
McCollough Effect
Figure and ground relationship
12. Best at seeing fine details
After light passes through receptors
Visual Acuity
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Retina
13. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Receptive Field
Proximity
binoculary disparity
Visual Pathway
14. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Constancy
Structuralist Theory
Cornea
Visual Acuity
15. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Depth perception
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Outer ear
Receptor Cells
16. Applies to all senses but only to a limited range of intensities. The law states that a stimulus needs to be increased by a constant fraction of its original value in order to be noticeably different
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17. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
After light passes through receptors
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Lateral Inhibition
Mental set
18. The physical intensity of light
Timbre
Brightness
Fechner'S Law
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
19. 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.
After light passes through receptors
McCollough Effect
Lateral Inhibition
Constancy
20. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Impossible Objects
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Linear perspective
21. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Moon Illusion
Vision
Fovea
Response Bias
22. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Hue
Dark adaptation
After light passes through receptors
Visual Cliff
23. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Cornea
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Impossible Objects
Symmetry
24. humans best hear at
Perceptual Development
Structuralist Theory
Rods
1000hz
25. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Rods
Correct Rejection
Ciliary Muscles
Light
26. 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
Rods
3 steps involving sensation
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Closure
27. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Continuation
E.H. Weber
Symmetry
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
28. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Mental set
McCollough Effect
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
After light passes through receptors
29. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
binoculary disparity
Receiver operating characteristic
Vision
Inner ear
30. Why do cones see better than rods?
Gestalt Psychology
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Moon Illusion
motion parallax
31. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Closure
Brightness
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Ewald Hering
32. Along the visual pathway is the...
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Ewald Hering
Optic Chasm
Brightness
33. 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.
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Receptor Cells
Cornea
Optic Chasm
34. Also known as just noticeable difference. The minimum difference that must occur between two stimuli - in order for them to be perceived as having different intensities.
Differential Threshold
Ganglion cells
Middle ear
Perceptual Development
35. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Photopigments
Weber'S Law
36. Discovered that cells in the visual cortex were so complex and specialized that they respond to certain types of stimuli. For example - some cells only respond to vertical lines - whereas some respond to only right angles.
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
binoculary disparity
Inner ear
37. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Depth perception
Ewald Hering
Response Bias
Symmetry
38. Has monocular and binocular cues
Cornea
Depth perception
Middle ear
Color constancy
39. Located in the back of the eye - receives light images from the lens. It is composed of about 30 million photoreceptor cells and of other cell layers that process information
Hue
Sensation
Ewald Hering
Retina
40. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Continuation
Pragnanz
Perceptual Development
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
41. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Ciliary Muscles
James Gibson
42. The way that a single point of light viewed in darkness will appear to shake or move. the reason for this is the movement of our own eyes
Ciliary Muscles
Autokinetic effect
Differential Threshold
Depth perception
43. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Pragnanz
Symmetry
Differential Threshold
Proximity
44. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Brightness
apparent size
Fovea
Current thinking about sensation and perception
45. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
interposition
Brightness
Nativist Theory
Perceptual Development
46. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Amplitude
James Gibson
Mental set
Terminal Threshold
47. 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
Neural Pathways
Absolute threshold
Purkinje shift
Perception
48. Proposed the tri-color theory - research shows that the opponent-process theory seems to be at work in the Lateral geniculate body - research shows that the tri-color theory seems to be at work in the Retina
Fovea
Optic Chasm
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Mental set
49. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Nativist Theory
Purkinje shift
Ponzo Illusion
interposition
50. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Phi Phenomenon
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Timbre
motion parallax