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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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
Neural Pathways
Timbre
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
2. 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
Figure and ground relationship
Optic Chasm
Retina
After light passes through receptors
3. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Phi Phenomenon
Receptive Field
binoculary disparity
Terminal Threshold
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
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
James Gibson
Autokinetic effect
Color constancy
5. 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
Terminal Threshold
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Receptive Field
6. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Hit
Constancy
Light
Absolute threshold
7. Has monocular and binocular cues
E.H. Weber
Depth perception
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Amplitude
8. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Constancy
Hit
Optic Chasm
Neural Pathways
9. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Perceptual Development
The visual pathway
Linear perspective
Visual Cliff
10. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Impossible Objects
interposition
Muller-Lyer Illusion
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
11. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Size Constancy
Closure
texture gradient
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
12. 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
Nativist Theory
Middle ear
Depth perception
Miss
13. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
Correct Rejection
Size Constancy
Figure and ground relationship
14. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Receptor Cells
Timbre
motion parallax
15. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
After light passes through receptors
Receiver operating characteristic
Lens
James Gibson
16. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Autokinetic effect
Lateral Inhibition
Symmetry
Brightness
17. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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18. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Dark adaptation
Phi Phenomenon
Sensation
19. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Continuation
Autokinetic effect
Differential Threshold
20. Located by the cornea
Hit
Lens
Light
Structuralist Theory
21. 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
McCollough Effect
Vision
Receiver operating characteristic
Autokinetic effect
22. The physical intensity of light
McCollough Effect
Terminal Threshold
Brightness
Ganglion cells
23. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Lens
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Gestat Ideas
Miss
24. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Visual Pathway
Impossible Objects
Symmetry
Sensation
25. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Lateral Inhibition
Response Bias
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
26. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Perception
E.H. Weber
Rods
27. The optic nerve is made up of...
Phi Phenomenon
Ganglion cells
Visual Pathway
Weber'S Law
28. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Gestat Ideas
Figure and ground relationship
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
E.H. Weber
29. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Robert Frantz
Correct Rejection
1000hz
texture gradient
30. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Miss
Photopigments
binoculary disparity
Hit
31. 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.
Terminal Threshold
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Continuation
Perception
32. Is the inability to recognize faces
Mental set
Gestat Ideas
Prosopagnosia
Lateral Inhibition
33. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Fechner'S Law
apparent size
Visual Acuity
Nativist Theory
34. 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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35. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Visual Pathway
Structuralist Theory
Vision
Fovea
36. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Gestat Ideas
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Response Bias
Dark adaptation
37. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Outer ear
False alarm
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Color constancy
38. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Optic Chasm
False alarm
Linear perspective
Ponzo Illusion
39. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Miss
After light passes through receptors
Depth perception
Proximity
40. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Visual Field
Inner ear
Hit
Impossible Objects
41. 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'
Depth perception
binoculary disparity
Robert Frantz
Visual Cliff
42. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Prosopagnosia
Differential Threshold
Fovea
43. Best at seeing fine details
Vision
Optic Array
Visual Acuity
Figure and ground relationship
44. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
interposition
Receptive Field
Pragnanz
Sensation
45. 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.
Outer ear
Differential Threshold
Neural Pathways
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
46. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Terminal Threshold
3 steps involving sensation
Perception
apparent size
47. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Optic Array
Proximity
Lateral Inhibition
Purkinje shift
48. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Hue
Nativist Theory
After light passes through receptors
Reception
49. 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
Hue
Miss
binoculary disparity
Photopigments
50. Along the visual pathway is the...
Fovea
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Timbre
Optic Chasm
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