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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
The visual pathway
Brightness
Gestalt Psychology
Hermann Von Hemholtz
2. humans best hear at
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Miss
Perception
1000hz
3. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Reception
Robert Frantz
Optic Array
Proximity
4. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Response Bias
False alarm
motion parallax
Cones
5. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Hue
Middle ear
Gestalt Psychology
Lens
6. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
interposition
Moon Illusion
Ponzo Illusion
7. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Pragnanz
Absolute threshold
Optic Chasm
Current thinking about sensation and perception
8. 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
Visual Cliff
False alarm
Correct Rejection
9. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Figure and ground relationship
False alarm
Moon Illusion
Structuralist Theory
10. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Lens
3 steps involving sensation
Fovea
Inner ear
11. 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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12. 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
Impossible Objects
Proximity
apparent size
13. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
interposition
Nativist Theory
Optic Array
Optic Chasm
14. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ciliary Muscles
Ewald Hering
interposition
Receiver operating characteristic
15. 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.
texture gradient
Moon Illusion
Dark adaptation
Differential Threshold
16. 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
Phi Phenomenon
Dark adaptation
Ciliary Muscles
Color constancy
17. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
E.H. Weber
Photopigments
Nativist Theory
Brightness
18. 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)
Visual Pathway
Differential Threshold
Depth perception
19. 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
Inner ear
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Perception
Lateral Inhibition
20. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Mental set
Continuation
Proximity
Pragnanz
21. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
Phi Phenomenon
Fechner'S Law
Receiver operating characteristic
22. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Depth perception
Mental set
Miss
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
23. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
James Gibson
Ganglion cells
24. Why do cones see better than rods?
Perceptual Development
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Fovea
Optic Chasm
25. 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
Photopigments
Linear perspective
texture gradient
26. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Retina
Figure and ground relationship
apparent size
Gestat Ideas
27. 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
McCollough Effect
Optic Array
Vision
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
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
texture gradient
Lateral Inhibition
Purkinje shift
29. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Frequency
Minimum principle
Color constancy
Outer ear
30. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Cones
McCollough Effect
apparent size
31. 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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32. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Symmetry
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Vision
Visual Pathway
33. Best at seeing fine details
Visual Acuity
Dark adaptation
Terminal Threshold
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
34. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Light
Inner ear
Cones
35. 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.
Differential Threshold
Size Constancy
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
The visual pathway
36. 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.
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Receptive Field
motion parallax
Brightness
37. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Visual Acuity
Figure and ground relationship
Proximity
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
38. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Light
Optic Array
Brightness
The visual pathway
39. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Symmetry
Gestat Ideas
Correct Rejection
Cornea
40. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Minimum principle
Prosopagnosia
Reception
41. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Absolute threshold
Gestat Ideas
Visual Pathway
Mental set
42. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Robert Frantz
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Visual Field
Sensation
43. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Optic Chasm
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Amplitude
James Gibson
44. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Differential Threshold
Depth perception
Rods
Fovea
45. 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
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Visual Acuity
Fechner'S Law
46. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Continuation
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Timbre
Neural Pathways
47. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
James Gibson
False alarm
1000hz
Impossible Objects
48. 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
Size Constancy
McCollough Effect
Ganglion cells
Hermann Von Hemholtz
49. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Differential Threshold
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Perceptual Development
Visual Field
50. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Dark adaptation
Impossible Objects
Cornea
Tri-color Theory (component theory)