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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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
Ponzo Illusion
Cones
Autokinetic effect
Retina
2. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Symmetry
Correct Rejection
Amplitude
Weber'S Law
3. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Reception
The visual pathway
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Outer ear
4. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Perception
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Visual Field
Miss
5. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Middle ear
Terminal Threshold
Visual Cliff
Symmetry
6. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
McCollough Effect
Visual Pathway
Proximity
Constancy
7. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
interposition
E.H. Weber
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Terminal Threshold
8. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Cornea
Perceptual Development
Figure and ground relationship
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
9. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Absolute threshold
After light passes through receptors
Current thinking about sensation and perception
10. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Minimum principle
Ewald Hering
Nativist Theory
Size Constancy
11. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Reception
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
binoculary disparity
motion parallax
12. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Receiver operating characteristic
Minimum principle
Proximity
13. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Moon Illusion
3 steps involving sensation
Middle ear
Continuation
14. 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
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Rods
Ponzo Illusion
Brightness
15. 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
Closure
Middle ear
James Gibson
Nativist Theory
16. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Vision
Impossible Objects
Perceptual Development
Size Constancy
17. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Gestat Ideas
Depth perception
Light
18. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Robert Frantz
Weber'S Law
Differential Threshold
Receptive Field
19. Is the inability to recognize faces
1000hz
Hit
Prosopagnosia
Miss
20. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
The visual pathway
Robert Frantz
Prosopagnosia
Absolute threshold
21. 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.
Receiver operating characteristic
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
interposition
22. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Neural Pathways
Impossible Objects
Optic Array
interposition
23. 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.
Visual Pathway
motion parallax
Miss
Figure and ground relationship
24. 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
Minimum principle
Ciliary Muscles
False alarm
Purkinje shift
25. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Response Bias
Visual Cliff
Hit
26. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Lens
James Gibson
Ponzo Illusion
27. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Color constancy
Response Bias
Figure and ground relationship
28. Located by the cornea
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Response Bias
Color constancy
Lens
29. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Mental set
Cornea
texture gradient
30. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Light
Structuralist Theory
Vision
Robert Frantz
31. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Reception
Minimum principle
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Receptor Cells
32. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Optic Chasm
Receptive Field
Reception
Amplitude
33. 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.
Terminal Threshold
Gestalt Psychology
Ewald Hering
Phi Phenomenon
34. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Moon Illusion
Middle ear
Response Bias
Color constancy
35. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Terminal Threshold
Lateral Inhibition
Fovea
texture gradient
36. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Frequency
Cornea
Mental set
Miss
37. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Absolute threshold
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
binoculary disparity
Response Bias
38. 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.
Moon Illusion
binoculary disparity
Fechner'S Law
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
39. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Middle ear
Size Constancy
Cornea
Hue
40. 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.
Correct Rejection
Differential Threshold
3 steps involving sensation
Constancy
41. 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
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Perception
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Absolute threshold
42. 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
Inner ear
Phi Phenomenon
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
1000hz
43. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Lateral Inhibition
Timbre
Hue
Purkinje shift
44. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
Amplitude
Brightness
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
45. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Retina
Figure and ground relationship
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
3 steps involving sensation
46. 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
Middle ear
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Figure and ground relationship
47. Along the visual pathway is the...
Ciliary Muscles
motion parallax
Perception
Optic Chasm
48. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Visual Cliff
Closure
Proximity
Photopigments
49. How people perceive objects in the way that they are familiar with them - regardless of changes in the actual retinal image. A book - for example - is perceived as rectangular in shape no matter what angle it is seen from.
Constancy
Pragnanz
Photopigments
Nativist Theory
50. 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.
1000hz
Inner ear
Optic Chasm
Retina