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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. How we organize or experience sensations
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Cones
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Perception
2. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Depth perception
Gestat Ideas
Autokinetic effect
Ciliary Muscles
3. Has monocular and binocular cues
Optic Array
Depth perception
Symmetry
Lateral Inhibition
4. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Sensation
Receptive Field
Correct Rejection
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
5. 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.
Sensation
James Gibson
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Brightness
6. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Brightness
apparent size
Response Bias
Symmetry
7. 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
Middle ear
Ponzo Illusion
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Ciliary Muscles
8. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Mental set
Receptor Cells
Visual Cliff
Hermann Von Hemholtz
9. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Visual Pathway
Symmetry
1000hz
Dark adaptation
10. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Perceptual Development
Optic Array
Impossible Objects
Absolute threshold
11. Ambiguous figures - such as the Rubin vase. They can be perceived as two different things depending on which part you see as the figure and which part you see as the background.
Correct Rejection
Vision
Visual Field
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
12. Along the visual pathway is the...
Size Constancy
Ganglion cells
Optic Chasm
Purkinje shift
13. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Pragnanz
Constancy
Receptive Field
Ewald Hering
14. 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.
Optic Array
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Gestalt Psychology
Receiver operating characteristic
15. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
The visual pathway
Inner ear
texture gradient
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
16. 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
Gestalt Psychology
Fechner'S Law
Cones
17. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Reception
Moon Illusion
Visual Field
Amplitude
18. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Size Constancy
Depth perception
Optic Array
Weber'S Law
19. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Visual Cliff
motion parallax
Mental set
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
20. 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.
Lateral Inhibition
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Timbre
Pragnanz
21. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Sensation
E.H. Weber
Receiver operating characteristic
Current thinking about sensation and perception
22. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Dark adaptation
Light
Size Constancy
23. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Ciliary Muscles
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Purkinje shift
Structuralist Theory
24. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
False alarm
Minimum principle
Figure and ground relationship
Dark adaptation
25. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Hue
Differential Threshold
Optic Chasm
26. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Cones
Color constancy
Gestat Ideas
Gestalt Psychology
27. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Neural Pathways
Outer ear
Optic Chasm
Receiver operating characteristic
28. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Reception
Outer ear
Visual Pathway
Visual Cliff
29. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Light
Reception
Rods
interposition
30. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Prosopagnosia
Terminal Threshold
Sensation
31. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Correct Rejection
Visual Pathway
1000hz
32. 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
Mental set
False alarm
Retina
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
33. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Autokinetic effect
Prosopagnosia
Frequency
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
34. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
binoculary disparity
Photopigments
Vision
Nativist Theory
35. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Pragnanz
Inner ear
apparent size
Correct Rejection
36. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
E.H. Weber
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
37. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Color constancy
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Minimum principle
Rods
38. 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
apparent size
3 steps involving sensation
Optic Chasm
Inner ear
39. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Optic Array
Miss
Visual Field
Linear perspective
40. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
The visual pathway
Brightness
Autokinetic effect
Timbre
41. Why do cones see better than rods?
Differential Threshold
Moon Illusion
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
1000hz
42. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Fechner'S Law
Vision
Amplitude
43. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
Response Bias
Size Constancy
Ponzo Illusion
44. Is the inability to recognize faces
Moon Illusion
Receiver operating characteristic
Weber'S Law
Prosopagnosia
45. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Proximity
Optic Array
Robert Frantz
Neural Pathways
46. The moon looks larger when we see it on the horizon than when we see it in the sky. This is because the horizon contains visual cues that make the moon seem more distant than the overhead sky.
Light
Middle ear
Moon Illusion
Frequency
47. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Proximity
Sensation
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Purkinje shift
48. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Figure and ground relationship
Phi Phenomenon
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Perceptual Development
49. 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
Ewald Hering
Depth perception
McCollough Effect
Purkinje shift
50. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Ciliary Muscles
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Cornea
Fechner'S Law