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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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'
Mental set
Prosopagnosia
Visual Cliff
Receptor Cells
2. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Terminal Threshold
Continuation
Lens
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
3. humans best hear at
Response Bias
Mental set
1000hz
Reception
4. 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
Middle ear
Fovea
Ganglion cells
Prosopagnosia
5. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Structuralist Theory
Constancy
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
6. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Middle ear
Vision
Hit
Terminal Threshold
7. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Cones
Response Bias
Nativist Theory
Ewald Hering
8. 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
Autokinetic effect
interposition
Nativist Theory
Structuralist Theory
9. 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.
Cornea
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Optic Chasm
Muller-Lyer Illusion
10. 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.
Timbre
texture gradient
Gestalt Psychology
Lens
11. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Frequency
James Gibson
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Brightness
12. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Impossible Objects
The visual pathway
Cornea
1000hz
13. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Autokinetic effect
Photopigments
Miss
Structuralist Theory
14. Located by the cornea
Receptive Field
Lens
Inner ear
Proximity
15. 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
Closure
Dark adaptation
McCollough Effect
Lens
16. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Response Bias
Receptor Cells
Receiver operating characteristic
17. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Retina
Receptor Cells
Receiver operating characteristic
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
18. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Receiver operating characteristic
Perceptual Development
19. 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.
Absolute threshold
Size Constancy
Ganglion cells
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
20. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Visual Pathway
Miss
Cones
Visual Cliff
21. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Perceptual Development
Lateral Inhibition
Ponzo Illusion
Receptive Field
22. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Dark adaptation
Purkinje shift
Minimum principle
McCollough Effect
23. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Outer ear
Impossible Objects
E.H. Weber
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
24. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Receptive Field
Vision
Impossible Objects
1000hz
25. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
Retina
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Receptive Field
26. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
Cornea
Closure
Absolute threshold
27. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Nativist Theory
The visual pathway
Inner ear
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
28. 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
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Weber'S Law
Response Bias
Continuation
29. 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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30. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Continuation
Timbre
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Minimum principle
31. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Closure
Visual Pathway
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Correct Rejection
32. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Robert Frantz
Optic Chasm
binoculary disparity
33. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
Correct Rejection
Perception
Minimum principle
34. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Photopigments
apparent size
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Gestalt Psychology
35. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Visual Field
3 steps involving sensation
Symmetry
Outer ear
36. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Pragnanz
False alarm
Figure and ground relationship
Nativist Theory
37. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Robert Frantz
Frequency
Ciliary Muscles
Terminal Threshold
38. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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39. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
1000hz
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Purkinje shift
Figure and ground relationship
40. 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.
Minimum principle
texture gradient
motion parallax
Continuation
41. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Color constancy
interposition
Lateral Inhibition
motion parallax
42. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Ciliary Muscles
Optic Array
Hit
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
43. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Frequency
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Dark adaptation
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
44. 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
Hue
The visual pathway
Phi Phenomenon
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
45. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Optic Chasm
Rods
Receptor Cells
Vision
46. 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
James Gibson
After light passes through receptors
Purkinje shift
3 steps involving sensation
47. How we organize or experience sensations
McCollough Effect
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Perception
texture gradient
48. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
apparent size
Correct Rejection
Optic Array
49. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Frequency
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Depth perception
E.H. Weber
50. 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
Inner ear
binoculary disparity
Continuation
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)