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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation

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1. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity






2. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate






3. 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






4. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear






5. Best at seeing fine details






6. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive






7. 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.






8. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood






9. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.






10. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see






11. Has monocular and binocular cues






12. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.






13. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye






14. A thick layer of glass above a surface that dropped off sharply. The glass provided solid - level ground doe subjects to move across in spite of the cliff below. Animals and babies were used as subjects and both groups avoided moving into the 'cliff'






15. Located by the cornea






16. The optic nerve is made up of...






17. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance






18. 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.






19. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time






20. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen






21. Why do cones see better than rods?






22. After images are perceived because of fatigued receptors. Because our eyes have a partially oppositional system for seeing colors - such as red-green or black-white - once on side is overstimulated and fatigued - it can no longer respond and is overs






23. 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






24. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave






25. 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






26. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists






27. Famous for the theory of color blindness






28. Failing to detect a present stimulus






29. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on






30. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus






31. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina






32. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.






33. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual






34. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images






35. 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.






36. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays






37. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.






38. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways






39. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.






40. 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






41. 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.






42. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...






43. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. How movement is perceived though the displacement of objects over time - and how this motion takes place at seemingly different paces for nearby or faraway objects. Ships far away seem to move more slowly than ships moving at the same speed.






47. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear






48. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background






49. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths






50. Is the inability to recognize faces







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