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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Color constancy
Receiver operating characteristic
apparent size
3 steps involving sensation
2. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Reception
Constancy
Continuation
Dark adaptation
3. Along the visual pathway is the...
Gestalt Psychology
Proximity
Fechner'S Law
Optic Chasm
4. The physical intensity of light
Brightness
Autokinetic effect
Structuralist Theory
Visual Acuity
5. 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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6. Why do cones see better than rods?
Miss
Receiver operating characteristic
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Closure
7. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Light
Rods
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Optic Array
8. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Weber'S Law
Ciliary Muscles
Perceptual Development
Differential Threshold
9. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Size Constancy
Symmetry
Phi Phenomenon
Depth perception
10. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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11. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
interposition
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Rods
Figure and ground relationship
12. Located by the cornea
False alarm
Miss
Ganglion cells
Lens
13. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Closure
apparent size
James Gibson
Dark adaptation
14. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Frequency
Impossible Objects
Photopigments
James Gibson
15. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Perceptual Development
Gestalt Psychology
Reception
texture gradient
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
Rods
Nativist Theory
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
17. 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'
Proximity
Cornea
Pragnanz
Visual Cliff
18. 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
Middle ear
Receptor Cells
Moon Illusion
19. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Phi Phenomenon
Amplitude
Robert Frantz
The visual pathway
20. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
E.H. Weber
Impossible Objects
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
21. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Linear perspective
Impossible Objects
Ponzo Illusion
22. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Purkinje shift
Minimum principle
Fechner'S Law
Hue
23. 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
texture gradient
Neural Pathways
Inner ear
Hit
24. Best at seeing fine details
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Visual Acuity
apparent size
Neural Pathways
25. The optic nerve is made up of...
motion parallax
Figure and ground relationship
Fechner'S Law
Ganglion cells
26. 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
Autokinetic effect
Robert Frantz
Retina
27. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Perception
interposition
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Sensation
28. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Fechner'S Law
Ciliary Muscles
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Autokinetic effect
29. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Visual Field
Reception
Vision
Purkinje shift
30. 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
binoculary disparity
Structuralist Theory
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Size Constancy
31. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Rods
Miss
Receptive Field
Depth perception
32. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Amplitude
Receptor Cells
interposition
Hue
33. 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.
Ponzo Illusion
Lateral Inhibition
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Gestat Ideas
34. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
interposition
Impossible Objects
Light
Continuation
35. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Mental set
Neural Pathways
Pragnanz
Visual Pathway
36. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
After light passes through receptors
Cornea
Dark adaptation
Phi Phenomenon
37. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Visual Acuity
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Timbre
Middle ear
38. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Moon Illusion
James Gibson
Visual Cliff
39. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Inner ear
Photopigments
Neural Pathways
Pragnanz
40. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Receptor Cells
Light
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
41. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
After light passes through receptors
Nativist Theory
interposition
Differential Threshold
42. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Size Constancy
Constancy
Retina
E.H. Weber
43. 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
Vision
Purkinje shift
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Differential Threshold
44. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Proximity
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Phi Phenomenon
Cones
45. 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.
Nativist Theory
Size Constancy
Photopigments
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
46. 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.
After light passes through receptors
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
motion parallax
Closure
47. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Structuralist Theory
Ciliary Muscles
Symmetry
Current thinking about sensation and perception
48. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Amplitude
Fechner'S Law
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Continuation
49. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Visual Acuity
Visual Field
Nativist Theory
Optic Array
50. humans best hear at
1000hz
Minimum principle
E.H. Weber
Lateral Inhibition