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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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.
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Weber'S Law
Optic Chasm
Phi Phenomenon
2. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Pragnanz
Continuation
Photopigments
Linear perspective
3. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Visual Pathway
Visual Field
Optic Array
Constancy
4. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Sensation
Moon Illusion
Gestalt Psychology
Minimum principle
5. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Rods
Impossible Objects
Structuralist Theory
Pragnanz
6. 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
Ganglion cells
Receiver operating characteristic
Color constancy
binoculary disparity
7. 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
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Retina
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
8. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Absolute threshold
Weber'S Law
apparent size
Current thinking about sensation and perception
9. 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
Brightness
Purkinje shift
Continuation
Reception
10. Has monocular and binocular cues
Constancy
Fechner'S Law
Depth perception
1000hz
11. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Receptor Cells
Correct Rejection
Color constancy
The visual pathway
12. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Receptor Cells
Continuation
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
13. 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.
Outer ear
Continuation
Figure and ground relationship
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
14. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Perceptual Development
E.H. Weber
Pragnanz
Robert Frantz
15. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Miss
Size Constancy
Sensation
Frequency
16. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Amplitude
Ganglion cells
Optic Chasm
James Gibson
17. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Frequency
Reception
Absolute threshold
Cones
18. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Fovea
Moon Illusion
Outer ear
Ewald Hering
19. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Structuralist Theory
Brightness
Figure and ground relationship
Muller-Lyer Illusion
20. 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
Rods
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Autokinetic effect
21. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Phi Phenomenon
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Cornea
Symmetry
22. The physical intensity of light
Closure
Figure and ground relationship
Mental set
Brightness
23. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
Perceptual Development
Visual Cliff
Ponzo Illusion
24. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
False alarm
Ewald Hering
Optic Chasm
Perceptual Development
25. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
apparent size
Color constancy
Moon Illusion
Perception
26. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Robert Frantz
Closure
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
texture gradient
27. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Terminal Threshold
Absolute threshold
The visual pathway
Inner ear
28. 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
Optic Chasm
binoculary disparity
Correct Rejection
29. How we organize or experience sensations
Receiver operating characteristic
Perception
Lens
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
30. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Correct Rejection
Timbre
Optic Array
Receiver operating characteristic
31. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Hit
Impossible Objects
Fechner'S Law
Mental set
32. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Optic Chasm
E.H. Weber
binoculary disparity
Amplitude
33. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Receiver operating characteristic
Middle ear
Linear perspective
Gestat Ideas
34. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
binoculary disparity
interposition
Size Constancy
Frequency
35. 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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36. 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
Ewald Hering
Ponzo Illusion
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Retina
37. 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.
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Brightness
Perceptual Development
38. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Visual Cliff
Hit
Receptor Cells
Timbre
39. 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
Differential Threshold
Muller-Lyer Illusion
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Ganglion cells
40. 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
Size Constancy
Pragnanz
Inner ear
Visual Acuity
41. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Vision
Lateral Inhibition
Response Bias
Continuation
42. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Response Bias
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Optic Chasm
After light passes through receptors
43. 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.
Current thinking about sensation and perception
After light passes through receptors
Fechner'S Law
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
44. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Robert Frantz
Fovea
James Gibson
Absolute threshold
45. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Visual Field
Moon Illusion
Closure
Outer ear
46. Best at seeing fine details
Middle ear
Gestat Ideas
Minimum principle
Visual Acuity
47. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Linear perspective
Size Constancy
Fechner'S Law
Visual Pathway
48. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Gestalt Psychology
Perceptual Development
Muller-Lyer Illusion
James Gibson
49. 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.
Terminal Threshold
motion parallax
Brightness
Vision
50. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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