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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






2. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.






3. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways






4. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity






5. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible






6. The physical intensity of light






7. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing






8. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on






9. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave






10. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists






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






12. Factors into why we see what we expect to see






13. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.






14. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.






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.






16. Best at seeing fine details






17. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate






18. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance






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.






20. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood






21. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus






22. The feeling that results from physical stimulation






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






24. Is the inability to recognize faces






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






27. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them






28. The optic nerve is made up of...






29. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there






30. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear






31. Famous for the theory of color blindness






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






34. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.






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






36. We see objects because of the light they reflect






37. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear






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.






39. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer






40. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle






41. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive






42. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...






43. He tendency to group together items that are near each other






44. Along the visual pathway is the...






45. Has monocular and binocular cues






46. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green






47. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures






48. Located by the cornea






49. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.






50. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction