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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation

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






2. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.






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






4. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.






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






6. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen






7. Best at seeing fine details






8. 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






9. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array






10. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there






11. Has monocular and binocular cues






12. 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.






13. 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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14. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths






15. humans best hear at






16. 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.






17. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images






18. Proposed the opponent color/process theory






19. 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.






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






21. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction






22. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness






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






24. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation

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25. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye






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






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






28. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background






29. 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






30. 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






31. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...






32. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see






33. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual






34. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists






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






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






37. Is the inability to recognize faces






38. How we organize or experience sensations






39. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be






40. 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.






41. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays






42. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment






43. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer






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






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






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






47. 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






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






49. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave






50. Also known as just noticeable difference. The minimum difference that must occur between two stimuli - in order for them to be perceived as having different intensities.







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