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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Receptive Field
texture gradient
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Ewald Hering
2. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Absolute threshold
Robert Frantz
Hue
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
3. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Structuralist Theory
Cornea
Nativist Theory
Optic Chasm
4. 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
Minimum principle
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
1000hz
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
5. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Absolute threshold
Fechner'S Law
Receptive Field
Dark adaptation
6. 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.
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Fechner'S Law
Differential Threshold
Receptive Field
7. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Light
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Timbre
interposition
8. 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.
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
interposition
9. Is the inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
Pragnanz
Fovea
Fechner'S Law
10. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Constancy
Size Constancy
binoculary disparity
Ponzo Illusion
11. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Perceptual Development
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Size Constancy
Continuation
12. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Closure
Sensation
Fovea
13. Along the visual pathway is the...
Gestalt Psychology
Ciliary Muscles
Optic Chasm
Cornea
14. 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
Sensation
Timbre
texture gradient
15. The tendency to perceive a smooth motion. This explains why motion is perceived when there is none - often by the use of flashing lights or rapidly shown still-fram pictures - such as in the perception of cartoons. This is apparent motion
Phi Phenomenon
Weber'S Law
Continuation
After light passes through receptors
16. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Correct Rejection
Figure and ground relationship
Brightness
Optic Array
17. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Amplitude
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Structuralist Theory
18. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Minimum principle
Prosopagnosia
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Mental set
19. 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
Inner ear
Size Constancy
Depth perception
Current thinking about sensation and perception
20. 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
Response Bias
Retina
Prosopagnosia
Symmetry
21. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Miss
Terminal Threshold
apparent size
Linear perspective
22. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Cones
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Miss
Pragnanz
23. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Cones
McCollough Effect
Constancy
Autokinetic effect
24. 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.
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Mental set
Prosopagnosia
Optic Chasm
25. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Middle ear
Outer ear
Timbre
texture gradient
26. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Visual Pathway
Terminal Threshold
E.H. Weber
Perceptual Development
27. 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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28. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Ewald Hering
Light
Linear perspective
Receiver operating characteristic
29. 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
Middle ear
Pragnanz
Purkinje shift
Correct Rejection
30. 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
Ewald Hering
Structuralist Theory
Hit
McCollough Effect
31. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
Autokinetic effect
1000hz
Miss
32. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Depth perception
Visual Acuity
Reception
Sensation
33. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Timbre
Optic Chasm
Robert Frantz
Mental set
34. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Perceptual Development
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Perception
Current thinking about sensation and perception
35. 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
Proximity
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Middle ear
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
36. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Size Constancy
Photopigments
The visual pathway
Ciliary Muscles
37. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Timbre
3 steps involving sensation
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
38. 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
Sensation
Autokinetic effect
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
motion parallax
39. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Ganglion cells
Proximity
Pragnanz
Hue
40. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Lateral Inhibition
Proximity
Gestat Ideas
Frequency
41. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Timbre
Phi Phenomenon
Nativist Theory
Reception
42. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Differential Threshold
Hue
Cones
43. 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
Ewald Hering
Optic Chasm
Cones
Muller-Lyer Illusion
44. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Response Bias
Proximity
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Visual Pathway
45. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Perception
Size Constancy
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Photopigments
46. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
Constancy
Ciliary Muscles
Brightness
47. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Frequency
Differential Threshold
interposition
Brightness
48. 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.
Dark adaptation
Correct Rejection
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Lateral Inhibition
49. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
After light passes through receptors
Amplitude
Minimum principle
50. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
Lens
Rods
Current thinking about sensation and perception