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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Are particularly sensitive to dim light and are used for night vision. They are also concentrated along the sides of the retina - making them extremely important for peripheral vision
Neural Pathways
Response Bias
Visual Acuity
Rods
2. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Terminal Threshold
Cornea
E.H. Weber
After light passes through receptors
3. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Minimum principle
Brightness
Figure and ground relationship
4. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Figure and ground relationship
Lateral Inhibition
Fechner'S Law
5. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Visual Pathway
apparent size
Neural Pathways
Muller-Lyer Illusion
6. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
McCollough Effect
Middle ear
Light
Absolute threshold
7. Best at seeing fine details
Cornea
Visual Acuity
Ponzo Illusion
Moon Illusion
8. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Visual Field
Proximity
Brightness
Ewald Hering
9. How we organize or experience sensations
Impossible Objects
Perception
Weber'S Law
interposition
10. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Structuralist Theory
Receiver operating characteristic
Depth perception
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
11. humans best hear at
1000hz
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Correct Rejection
12. Proposed the tri-color theory - research shows that the opponent-process theory seems to be at work in the Lateral geniculate body - research shows that the tri-color theory seems to be at work in the Retina
Receptor Cells
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Figure and ground relationship
Reception
13. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Impossible Objects
Timbre
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Hit
14. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Reception
Photopigments
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Neural Pathways
15. Famous for the theory of color blindness
texture gradient
Gestalt Psychology
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Visual Acuity
16. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Photopigments
interposition
Phi Phenomenon
Purkinje shift
17. 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
Linear perspective
Receiver operating characteristic
Fovea
18. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Frequency
James Gibson
Optic Array
Closure
19. How people perceive objects in the way that they are familiar with them - regardless of changes in the actual retinal image. A book - for example - is perceived as rectangular in shape no matter what angle it is seen from.
Differential Threshold
Amplitude
Constancy
Structuralist Theory
20. The physical intensity of light
Visual Pathway
Brightness
Depth perception
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
21. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Cornea
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Nativist Theory
22. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Light
Outer ear
Hit
Lateral Inhibition
23. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Retina
Hit
The visual pathway
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
24. 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
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Middle ear
McCollough Effect
Pragnanz
25. 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
Brightness
Color constancy
binoculary disparity
After light passes through receptors
26. 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
Outer ear
Visual Acuity
Miss
Autokinetic effect
27. Is the inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
Frequency
Impossible Objects
False alarm
28. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
The visual pathway
Nativist Theory
Receiver operating characteristic
Ponzo Illusion
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. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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31. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Linear perspective
Ewald Hering
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
E.H. Weber
32. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Perceptual Development
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Brightness
texture gradient
33. 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.
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Continuation
motion parallax
Absolute threshold
34. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
After light passes through receptors
Hit
Frequency
Pragnanz
35. 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
motion parallax
Hue
Outer ear
36. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Mental set
Ciliary Muscles
Moon Illusion
Visual Field
37. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Robert Frantz
Neural Pathways
Cones
Size Constancy
38. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Robert Frantz
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
39. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Color constancy
apparent size
Receptor Cells
Moon Illusion
40. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Optic Array
Reception
Vision
Gestalt Psychology
41. 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
McCollough Effect
Outer ear
Receiver operating characteristic
Autokinetic effect
42. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
motion parallax
Amplitude
texture gradient
Receptive Field
43. The optic nerve is made up of...
Continuation
Depth perception
Ganglion cells
Differential Threshold
44. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
3 steps involving sensation
Ciliary Muscles
Light
Proximity
45. 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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46. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Gestalt Psychology
Sensation
Timbre
Correct Rejection
47. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Closure
Perception
Inner ear
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
48. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Terminal Threshold
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Prosopagnosia
Sensation
49. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Rods
Sensation
Receptive Field
Ewald Hering
50. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Hermann Von Hemholtz
E.H. Weber
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