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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Visual Acuity
Receptive Field
Muller-Lyer Illusion
2. Suggests that subjects detect stimuli not only because they can but also because they want to. TSD factors motivation into the picture.
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3. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Visual Cliff
4. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Neural Pathways
Response Bias
Receptor Cells
James Gibson
5. 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
motion parallax
Timbre
Weber'S Law
Autokinetic effect
6. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Autokinetic effect
3 steps involving sensation
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Brightness
7. 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
Perception
Linear perspective
Gestalt Psychology
8. 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
Terminal Threshold
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Symmetry
binoculary disparity
9. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Receptor Cells
Light
3 steps involving sensation
10. 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.
Neural Pathways
Cones
Proximity
Differential Threshold
11. Located by the cornea
Receiver operating characteristic
Lens
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Dark adaptation
12. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
Photopigments
Hit
Brightness
13. The optic nerve is made up of...
Gestalt Psychology
Visual Acuity
Phi Phenomenon
Ganglion cells
14. How we organize or experience sensations
Reception
Purkinje shift
Perception
E.H. Weber
15. 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.
Ganglion cells
Reception
Visual Acuity
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
16. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Reception
Amplitude
Ganglion cells
McCollough Effect
17. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
False alarm
Absolute threshold
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Response Bias
18. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Absolute threshold
Robert Frantz
Middle ear
Cones
19. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Receptive Field
Impossible Objects
Retina
20. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Sensation
Dark adaptation
Perceptual Development
Light
21. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Visual Pathway
Reception
Perceptual Development
Muller-Lyer Illusion
22. 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'
Pragnanz
Minimum principle
Visual Cliff
Outer ear
23. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Nativist Theory
Sensation
binoculary disparity
Cones
24. Why do cones see better than rods?
Lateral Inhibition
Proximity
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Figure and ground relationship
25. 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
Retina
Nativist Theory
Autokinetic effect
26. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Robert Frantz
Figure and ground relationship
Optic Chasm
3 steps involving sensation
27. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Frequency
Hit
Closure
Reception
28. 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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29. 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.
Ganglion cells
Impossible Objects
Gestalt Psychology
Middle ear
30. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Brightness
Pragnanz
Proximity
Robert Frantz
31. 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.
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Lateral Inhibition
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Phi Phenomenon
32. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Hit
Perception
The visual pathway
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
33. 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
McCollough Effect
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
34. 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
Photopigments
Light
Middle ear
Perceptual Development
35. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Visual Pathway
Gestat Ideas
Brightness
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
36. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
motion parallax
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Receptive Field
Sensation
37. Is the inability to recognize faces
Constancy
Prosopagnosia
Retina
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
38. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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39. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Correct Rejection
Hue
Symmetry
Figure and ground relationship
40. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Robert Frantz
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Proximity
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
41. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Mental set
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Size Constancy
Visual Field
42. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Size Constancy
Visual Cliff
Linear perspective
Sensation
43. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
E.H. Weber
False alarm
Optic Chasm
Structuralist Theory
44. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Outer ear
Middle ear
Size Constancy
45. 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
Autokinetic effect
Visual Field
Terminal Threshold
Phi Phenomenon
46. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Lateral Inhibition
Gestat Ideas
Linear perspective
interposition
47. Best at seeing fine details
Absolute threshold
Prosopagnosia
Receiver operating characteristic
Visual Acuity
48. 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
Moon Illusion
Hit
Retina
Purkinje shift
49. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Gestat Ideas
Nativist Theory
Perception
Minimum principle
50. humans best hear at
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
1000hz
Correct Rejection
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)