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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
False alarm
Gestat Ideas
Minimum principle
Neural Pathways
2. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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3. 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
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Response Bias
Size Constancy
binoculary disparity
4. 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'
Differential Threshold
Linear perspective
Retina
Visual Cliff
5. Best at seeing fine details
Visual Acuity
Proximity
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Absolute threshold
6. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Cones
Symmetry
Light
Nativist Theory
7. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
1000hz
Gestat Ideas
Lateral Inhibition
Mental set
8. Is the inability to recognize faces
Mental set
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Prosopagnosia
Hue
9. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Receptor Cells
Timbre
Symmetry
E.H. Weber
10. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Continuation
Visual Acuity
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
11. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Vision
Receiver operating characteristic
Nativist Theory
Hue
12. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
Cornea
Prosopagnosia
Visual Field
13. 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.
Symmetry
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Structuralist Theory
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
14. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Linear perspective
Photopigments
Ewald Hering
Color constancy
15. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Perceptual Development
Impossible Objects
Robert Frantz
Ganglion cells
16. 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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17. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Correct Rejection
texture gradient
Receptor Cells
Perception
18. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Vision
Continuation
Light
Ewald Hering
19. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Amplitude
Visual Cliff
Rods
Photopigments
20. 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
Cones
binoculary disparity
Amplitude
21. 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
Constancy
Inner ear
Terminal Threshold
interposition
22. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Fovea
Linear perspective
Light
Perception
23. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Ewald Hering
Optic Array
Cornea
1000hz
24. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Light
Correct Rejection
Ponzo Illusion
25. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Closure
Color constancy
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Visual Field
26. 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.
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Nativist Theory
Depth perception
Differential Threshold
27. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Symmetry
James Gibson
False alarm
Receptive Field
28. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Ewald Hering
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Continuation
Fovea
29. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Visual Pathway
1000hz
Differential Threshold
interposition
30. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Visual Field
Current thinking about sensation and perception
31. 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
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Symmetry
After light passes through receptors
Rods
32. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Miss
Absolute threshold
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Optic Chasm
33. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Ewald Hering
Perceptual Development
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
34. 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
Ciliary Muscles
Differential Threshold
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Brightness
35. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Reception
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
36. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Miss
Depth perception
Lens
Proximity
37. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Prosopagnosia
The visual pathway
Cornea
Terminal Threshold
38. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Fechner'S Law
texture gradient
Outer ear
Optic Chasm
39. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Mental set
Visual Field
Response Bias
James Gibson
40. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Receptor Cells
binoculary disparity
Fovea
E.H. Weber
41. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Minimum principle
Color constancy
McCollough Effect
After light passes through receptors
42. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Size Constancy
Hue
Hit
Brightness
43. 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.
Receptive Field
Brightness
Receiver operating characteristic
Moon Illusion
44. 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
Proximity
Robert Frantz
Retina
motion parallax
45. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Response Bias
Neural Pathways
Optic Chasm
Timbre
46. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Response Bias
Phi Phenomenon
Absolute threshold
47. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Terminal Threshold
E.H. Weber
Vision
Differential Threshold
48. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Proximity
Receptor Cells
Pragnanz
49. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Sensation
Lateral Inhibition
Receiver operating characteristic
Purkinje shift
50. 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
Neural Pathways
Response Bias
3 steps involving sensation