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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Gestat Ideas
Impossible Objects
Phi Phenomenon
Constancy
2. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
3 steps involving sensation
Optic Array
E.H. Weber
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
3. 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
Ewald Hering
After light passes through receptors
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Differential Threshold
4. How we organize or experience sensations
Size Constancy
Proximity
Mental set
Perception
5. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Autokinetic effect
Linear perspective
6. 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
Dark adaptation
Retina
Current thinking about sensation and perception
7. Located by the cornea
Lens
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Purkinje shift
Cones
8. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
The visual pathway
Gestat Ideas
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Optic Chasm
9. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Optic Chasm
Structuralist Theory
Hit
Differential Threshold
10. 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'
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Visual Cliff
Structuralist Theory
Frequency
11. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Hue
3 steps involving sensation
Optic Chasm
Dark adaptation
12. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Light
Brightness
Visual Pathway
Frequency
13. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Receptor Cells
Visual Field
Middle ear
14. We see objects because of the light they reflect
False alarm
Vision
Outer ear
Receptive Field
15. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Visual Field
Middle ear
James Gibson
Cornea
16. 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
Gestat Ideas
Receiver operating characteristic
17. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Fovea
Continuation
Visual Pathway
Size Constancy
18. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Phi Phenomenon
Ponzo Illusion
Correct Rejection
Sensation
19. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Nativist Theory
Rods
Robert Frantz
Cornea
20. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
1000hz
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Receptive Field
Minimum principle
21. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Absolute threshold
binoculary disparity
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
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
Closure
McCollough Effect
Terminal Threshold
The visual pathway
23. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Visual Acuity
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Closure
Outer ear
24. 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.
Purkinje shift
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Autokinetic effect
Symmetry
25. Correctly sensing a stimulus
James Gibson
Dark adaptation
Optic Array
Hit
26. humans best hear at
Vision
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Visual Cliff
1000hz
27. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Visual Cliff
Receiver operating characteristic
apparent size
Sensation
28. 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.
Moon Illusion
Dark adaptation
Pragnanz
Muller-Lyer Illusion
29. The optic nerve is made up of...
Absolute threshold
James Gibson
Ganglion cells
The visual pathway
30. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Retina
Terminal Threshold
After light passes through receptors
Rods
31. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Closure
Constancy
Brightness
Size Constancy
32. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Minimum principle
Proximity
Amplitude
33. 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
3 steps involving sensation
Purkinje shift
Receptive Field
Response Bias
34. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Reception
Ponzo Illusion
Ciliary Muscles
apparent size
35. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Cones
Prosopagnosia
Ganglion cells
Minimum principle
36. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Purkinje shift
The visual pathway
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Terminal Threshold
37. 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
Brightness
Perceptual Development
Minimum principle
Inner ear
38. 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
Ciliary Muscles
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Reception
Ganglion cells
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
The visual pathway
Brightness
Amplitude
Retina
40. Why do cones see better than rods?
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Prosopagnosia
Ganglion cells
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
41. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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42. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Optic Chasm
Visual Acuity
Dark adaptation
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
43. 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
Mental set
Phi Phenomenon
Differential Threshold
Cones
44. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Visual Cliff
Visual Pathway
Timbre
45. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Symmetry
motion parallax
Mental set
Terminal Threshold
46. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Pragnanz
The visual pathway
Moon Illusion
Fovea
47. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Weber'S Law
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Robert Frantz
48. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Receptor Cells
Outer ear
binoculary disparity
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
49. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Visual Pathway
Response Bias
3 steps involving sensation
Fechner'S Law
50. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
1000hz
E.H. Weber
Visual Field
Robert Frantz