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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Perception
Autokinetic effect
motion parallax
Terminal Threshold
2. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Proximity
Retina
3 steps involving sensation
Inner ear
3. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Size Constancy
Sensation
Terminal Threshold
Retina
4. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Middle ear
Reception
Symmetry
Moon Illusion
5. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Lateral Inhibition
motion parallax
Visual Pathway
Timbre
6. 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.
Perception
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Optic Chasm
Gestat Ideas
7. 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'
Visual Acuity
Visual Cliff
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
8. How we organize or experience sensations
texture gradient
Perception
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Perceptual Development
9. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Symmetry
Neural Pathways
binoculary disparity
texture gradient
10. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Lateral Inhibition
Ganglion cells
Closure
Correct Rejection
11. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
Mental set
Cornea
E.H. Weber
12. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Mental set
Continuation
Receptor Cells
Sensation
13. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Weber'S Law
Prosopagnosia
14. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Ganglion cells
Miss
Ponzo Illusion
1000hz
15. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
Color constancy
Purkinje shift
Phi Phenomenon
16. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Visual Field
Proximity
Perceptual Development
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
17. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Rods
Ewald Hering
Perception
18. 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.
Lateral Inhibition
Structuralist Theory
Pragnanz
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
19. 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.
The visual pathway
Structuralist Theory
motion parallax
Proximity
20. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Brightness
Cornea
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Color constancy
21. 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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22. 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
Optic Chasm
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
23. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Absolute threshold
Hermann Von Hemholtz
binoculary disparity
Moon Illusion
24. 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.
Moon Illusion
Gestalt Psychology
Fovea
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
25. 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
Color constancy
Visual Cliff
Retina
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
26. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Ciliary Muscles
Light
Fovea
Retina
27. 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
Gestat Ideas
Inner ear
Receptor Cells
Gestalt Psychology
28. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
texture gradient
Frequency
Receptor Cells
Correct Rejection
29. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Response Bias
3 steps involving sensation
Lateral Inhibition
Cones
30. Best at seeing fine details
Cornea
Hue
Visual Acuity
Correct Rejection
31. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Vision
Amplitude
Ewald Hering
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
32. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Reception
Weber'S Law
Visual Cliff
Robert Frantz
33. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Dark adaptation
Response Bias
Ciliary Muscles
Continuation
34. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Perceptual Development
Visual Acuity
Visual Cliff
Symmetry
35. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
interposition
Robert Frantz
binoculary disparity
apparent size
36. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Symmetry
Timbre
Purkinje shift
Continuation
37. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Perceptual Development
Optic Array
38. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Photopigments
Light
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Continuation
39. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
James Gibson
Terminal Threshold
Continuation
Ponzo Illusion
40. 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
Robert Frantz
Gestat Ideas
Correct Rejection
Middle ear
41. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Optic Chasm
After light passes through receptors
Receptor Cells
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
42. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Miss
Proximity
Linear perspective
Fechner'S Law
43. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Receptive Field
False alarm
Robert Frantz
Visual Pathway
44. 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
Phi Phenomenon
Purkinje shift
binoculary disparity
Visual Cliff
45. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
Color constancy
Perceptual Development
Nativist Theory
46. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Dark adaptation
Size Constancy
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Constancy
47. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
Ciliary Muscles
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Differential Threshold
48. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Closure
Gestat Ideas
Autokinetic effect
interposition
49. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Hit
Gestat Ideas
Light
Inner ear
50. Discovered that cells in the visual cortex were so complex and specialized that they respond to certain types of stimuli. For example - some cells only respond to vertical lines - whereas some respond to only right angles.
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Cornea
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Continuation
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