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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
After light passes through receptors
Hit
Light
Ganglion cells
2. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
False alarm
Optic Array
Linear perspective
3 steps involving sensation
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
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
After light passes through receptors
Differential Threshold
Visual Field
4. The physical intensity of light
McCollough Effect
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Brightness
Correct Rejection
5. 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
Purkinje shift
Figure and ground relationship
1000hz
Nativist Theory
6. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Proximity
False alarm
Timbre
Minimum principle
7. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Color constancy
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Linear perspective
8. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
McCollough Effect
Terminal Threshold
Structuralist Theory
Sensation
9. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Closure
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
After light passes through receptors
Optic Chasm
10. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Pragnanz
Visual Cliff
Vision
Figure and ground relationship
11. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Constancy
apparent size
Ewald Hering
Depth perception
12. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Depth perception
Mental set
motion parallax
E.H. Weber
13. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Structuralist Theory
James Gibson
Robert Frantz
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
14. 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.
Reception
Lateral Inhibition
Neural Pathways
Perception
15. How people perceive objects in the way that they are familiar with them - regardless of changes in the actual retinal image. A book - for example - is perceived as rectangular in shape no matter what angle it is seen from.
Moon Illusion
binoculary disparity
motion parallax
Constancy
16. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Outer ear
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Perceptual Development
Optic Chasm
17. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Weber'S Law
Visual Field
Size Constancy
Lens
18. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Visual Acuity
Cones
binoculary disparity
Light
19. 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
Optic Chasm
Rods
After light passes through receptors
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
20. Located by the cornea
Prosopagnosia
False alarm
Lens
Optic Chasm
21. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Structuralist Theory
Closure
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Visual Acuity
22. 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
1000hz
Outer ear
Cornea
23. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Reception
3 steps involving sensation
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Pragnanz
24. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Brightness
Inner ear
Middle ear
The visual pathway
25. 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.
Visual Pathway
James Gibson
motion parallax
Fechner'S Law
26. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Differential Threshold
Receptive Field
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Gestalt Psychology
27. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
texture gradient
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Mental set
Cornea
28. 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
McCollough Effect
Gestalt Psychology
Mental set
After light passes through receptors
29. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
texture gradient
Moon Illusion
Closure
interposition
30. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
1000hz
Color constancy
31. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Gestat Ideas
Impossible Objects
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Optic Chasm
32. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Proximity
Optic Chasm
Differential Threshold
Neural Pathways
33. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Correct Rejection
James Gibson
Continuation
34. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Proximity
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Middle ear
After light passes through receptors
35. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ponzo Illusion
Timbre
Ewald Hering
Terminal Threshold
36. 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
Proximity
Inner ear
Receiver operating characteristic
binoculary disparity
37. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Frequency
Color constancy
Minimum principle
Inner ear
38. 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
Weber'S Law
Differential Threshold
Receptive Field
binoculary disparity
39. humans best hear at
Timbre
Constancy
Ponzo Illusion
1000hz
40. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Visual Cliff
Minimum principle
Optic Array
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
41. Is the inability to recognize faces
Moon Illusion
Dark adaptation
Prosopagnosia
Receiver operating characteristic
42. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Frequency
E.H. Weber
Receiver operating characteristic
43. Along the visual pathway is the...
Lens
Optic Chasm
Moon Illusion
False alarm
44. 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
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Middle ear
Differential Threshold
Neural Pathways
45. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Response Bias
Autokinetic effect
False alarm
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
46. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Optic Chasm
Sensation
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Photopigments
47. 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
Miss
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Outer ear
48. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Symmetry
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
1000hz
interposition
49. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Terminal Threshold
Linear perspective
Visual Field
Continuation
50. 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
Light
Absolute threshold
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Phi Phenomenon