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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Visual Field
Continuation
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Terminal Threshold
2. Located by the cornea
Perception
Visual Acuity
Lens
Response Bias
3. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
E.H. Weber
Optic Chasm
motion parallax
Middle ear
4. 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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5. 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
Ponzo Illusion
Minimum principle
motion parallax
6. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Cones
Mental set
Reception
7. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Linear perspective
Photopigments
Proximity
Correct Rejection
8. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Absolute threshold
binoculary disparity
Robert Frantz
apparent size
9. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Optic Chasm
Ewald Hering
Timbre
Linear perspective
10. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
binoculary disparity
Moon Illusion
Sensation
Reception
11. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Continuation
Cornea
Absolute threshold
Size Constancy
12. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Frequency
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
13. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Pragnanz
Impossible Objects
Response Bias
14. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Neural Pathways
Rods
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Minimum principle
15. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Pragnanz
Sensation
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Minimum principle
16. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Timbre
Visual Field
Ponzo Illusion
Reception
17. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Figure and ground relationship
3 steps involving sensation
Impossible Objects
Gestat Ideas
18. 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.
Lens
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Amplitude
Miss
19. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Hit
Visual Pathway
James Gibson
Differential Threshold
20. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Depth perception
Moon Illusion
Hue
Perceptual Development
21. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Hit
Frequency
Reception
Timbre
22. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ewald Hering
motion parallax
False alarm
Mental set
23. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
1000hz
Nativist Theory
Current thinking about sensation and perception
24. 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
Retina
Timbre
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Continuation
25. 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.
Correct Rejection
Ganglion cells
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Timbre
26. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
False alarm
Gestat Ideas
Visual Acuity
The visual pathway
27. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Cornea
3 steps involving sensation
Impossible Objects
Absolute threshold
28. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
James Gibson
Continuation
Gestalt Psychology
Response Bias
29. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Proximity
Lens
Absolute threshold
30. 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
Gestat Ideas
Purkinje shift
Autokinetic effect
Gestalt Psychology
31. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Light
Terminal Threshold
Hit
Current thinking about sensation and perception
32. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
After light passes through receptors
Figure and ground relationship
Outer ear
Fechner'S Law
33. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Size Constancy
1000hz
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
34. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Autokinetic effect
Linear perspective
Lens
35. 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
Receptive Field
Inner ear
Pragnanz
motion parallax
36. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Reception
McCollough Effect
Pragnanz
Receptive Field
37. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Ciliary Muscles
Frequency
binoculary disparity
Fovea
38. 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'
binoculary disparity
Linear perspective
Inner ear
Visual Cliff
39. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Weber'S Law
Outer ear
Sensation
Pragnanz
40. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Visual Field
Correct Rejection
Perception
41. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Optic Array
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Lens
McCollough Effect
42. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Photopigments
Vision
Color constancy
Size Constancy
43. 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.
Fovea
motion parallax
Minimum principle
Optic Array
44. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
E.H. Weber
Robert Frantz
motion parallax
Pragnanz
45. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Constancy
Color constancy
motion parallax
Prosopagnosia
46. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
texture gradient
Closure
Fechner'S Law
apparent size
47. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Optic Chasm
Response Bias
texture gradient
Hermann Von Hemholtz
48. 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
Response Bias
Cones
Linear perspective
49. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Prosopagnosia
Fovea
Receiver operating characteristic
Miss
50. 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
Prosopagnosia
Middle ear
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz