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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Hit
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Absolute threshold
2. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
The visual pathway
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
After light passes through receptors
3. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Visual Field
James Gibson
Correct Rejection
3 steps involving sensation
4. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
Reception
Fechner'S Law
Symmetry
5. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Brightness
Impossible Objects
Photopigments
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
6. The physical intensity of light
Visual Field
Perception
Brightness
Figure and ground relationship
7. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Impossible Objects
Optic Array
Structuralist Theory
Vision
8. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
The visual pathway
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Color constancy
Prosopagnosia
9. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Robert Frantz
Receptor Cells
Constancy
Timbre
10. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
McCollough Effect
Optic Array
Symmetry
Correct Rejection
11. 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
Light
Gestat Ideas
Weber'S Law
Inner ear
12. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
interposition
Cones
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Mental set
13. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
binoculary disparity
Moon Illusion
Lens
Perceptual Development
14. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Fechner'S Law
Fovea
Pragnanz
Receptor Cells
15. 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.
Gestalt Psychology
James Gibson
Optic Array
Perceptual Development
16. Best at seeing fine details
Impossible Objects
Absolute threshold
Visual Acuity
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
17. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Visual Acuity
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Fechner'S Law
18. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Linear perspective
Robert Frantz
Receptor Cells
Ciliary Muscles
19. Where half of all fibers from the optic nerve of each eye cross over and join the optic nerve from the other eye. This insures input from each eye will be put together in a full picture in the brain.
Correct Rejection
Hit
Optic Chasm
Linear perspective
20. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Neural Pathways
Vision
Autokinetic effect
21. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Terminal Threshold
Photopigments
Retina
Receiver operating characteristic
22. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
James Gibson
Frequency
Constancy
Sensation
23. 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
texture gradient
Absolute threshold
Response Bias
Middle ear
24. Is the inability to recognize faces
James Gibson
Linear perspective
Prosopagnosia
Cornea
25. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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26. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Minimum principle
Correct Rejection
Cones
27. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Closure
Frequency
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Figure and ground relationship
28. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
Neural Pathways
Timbre
Proximity
29. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
False alarm
After light passes through receptors
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
30. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Minimum principle
Size Constancy
Inner ear
Receptor Cells
31. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Perception
Vision
James Gibson
Hermann Von Hemholtz
32. 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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33. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
binoculary disparity
Nativist Theory
Vision
Timbre
34. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Hue
Visual Pathway
Proximity
McCollough Effect
35. 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
Visual Pathway
McCollough Effect
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Impossible Objects
36. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Vision
Response Bias
Perception
Robert Frantz
37. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Fovea
The visual pathway
Vision
Terminal Threshold
38. 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.
Closure
Light
Moon Illusion
Mental set
39. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
interposition
Robert Frantz
Perceptual Development
Hue
40. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
motion parallax
Depth perception
Gestat Ideas
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
41. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Optic Array
Color constancy
Vision
Neural Pathways
42. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Dark adaptation
apparent size
Receptive Field
The visual pathway
43. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Proximity
After light passes through receptors
Phi Phenomenon
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
44. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
James Gibson
Figure and ground relationship
Cornea
45. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Retina
apparent size
Inner ear
46. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Retina
Symmetry
Optic Chasm
47. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Cornea
Closure
Depth perception
Vision
48. Located by the cornea
Lens
Weber'S Law
Receptive Field
Ciliary Muscles
49. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Depth perception
motion parallax
Continuation
Visual Field
50. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Photopigments
E.H. Weber
Moon Illusion
Visual Field