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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Visual Acuity
After light passes through receptors
Inner ear
Nativist Theory
2. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Response Bias
Continuation
1000hz
Terminal Threshold
3. 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.
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Linear perspective
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
4. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Dark adaptation
Symmetry
Retina
Receptive Field
5. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
Minimum principle
Gestat Ideas
Structuralist Theory
6. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Constancy
Impossible Objects
Visual Field
Ponzo Illusion
7. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Linear perspective
Structuralist Theory
Photopigments
Hit
8. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Size Constancy
Optic Chasm
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Visual Pathway
9. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
E.H. Weber
Differential Threshold
Robert Frantz
Ewald Hering
10. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Inner ear
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Visual Pathway
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
11. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Structuralist Theory
Continuation
Frequency
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
12. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
E.H. Weber
interposition
Hue
Neural Pathways
13. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Rods
Response Bias
Visual Acuity
interposition
14. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Retina
3 steps involving sensation
interposition
Correct Rejection
15. 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.
Gestat Ideas
Response Bias
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Moon Illusion
16. 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
Proximity
Photopigments
Hue
Muller-Lyer Illusion
17. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Brightness
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Visual Field
Dark adaptation
18. 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.
Lateral Inhibition
Outer ear
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Response Bias
19. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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20. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Visual Cliff
E.H. Weber
Timbre
The visual pathway
21. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Inner ear
McCollough Effect
Closure
Impossible Objects
22. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Ponzo Illusion
Linear perspective
Depth perception
Optic Chasm
23. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Color constancy
motion parallax
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Rods
24. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Impossible Objects
Neural Pathways
Middle ear
25. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Ganglion cells
Visual Field
Optic Array
Timbre
26. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Cornea
Gestalt Psychology
Nativist Theory
Lens
27. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
texture gradient
Prosopagnosia
Weber'S Law
28. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Lateral Inhibition
Visual Pathway
Cones
29. 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
After light passes through receptors
Impossible Objects
Frequency
binoculary disparity
30. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Vision
Ciliary Muscles
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Receptive Field
31. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
Fechner'S Law
Photopigments
Purkinje shift
32. 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.
Phi Phenomenon
Brightness
Autokinetic effect
motion parallax
33. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Nativist Theory
Amplitude
Brightness
Minimum principle
34. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Fovea
Constancy
Absolute threshold
35. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Purkinje shift
Miss
Receiver operating characteristic
Closure
36. 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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37. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Purkinje shift
Miss
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Middle ear
38. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Proximity
Middle ear
Vision
Hit
39. 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.
Mental set
Ewald Hering
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
40. Is the inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
Hue
James Gibson
Weber'S Law
41. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Pragnanz
Cones
Gestat Ideas
Hue
42. 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.
Cones
1000hz
Gestalt Psychology
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
43. 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
Linear perspective
E.H. Weber
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Autokinetic effect
44. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Response Bias
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
3 steps involving sensation
Linear perspective
45. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Neural Pathways
Optic Array
Terminal Threshold
Weber'S Law
46. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Linear perspective
Lateral Inhibition
Minimum principle
Light
47. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Visual Pathway
False alarm
E.H. Weber
Neural Pathways
48. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Figure and ground relationship
Photopigments
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Mental set
49. humans best hear at
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
1000hz
Pragnanz
Neural Pathways
50. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Visual Pathway
Differential Threshold
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Pragnanz