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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Response Bias
Ciliary Muscles
Vision
Optic Array
2. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
After light passes through receptors
Moon Illusion
Miss
Gestat Ideas
3. 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.
Response Bias
Structuralist Theory
Depth perception
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
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. humans best hear at
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
1000hz
interposition
Frequency
6. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Robert Frantz
Cornea
Optic Chasm
Structuralist Theory
7. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Receptor Cells
Cornea
Constancy
Light
8. Allows the eyes to see contrast and prevents repetitive information from being sent to the brain. Once the receptor cell is stimulated - the others nearby are inhibited.
Hit
Optic Chasm
Lateral Inhibition
Optic Chasm
9. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Perceptual Development
Cones
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Rods
10. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
Receiver operating characteristic
Symmetry
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
11. 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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12. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Ganglion cells
Ponzo Illusion
Correct Rejection
Sensation
13. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Differential Threshold
Symmetry
After light passes through receptors
Reception
14. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Ciliary Muscles
Lateral Inhibition
Photopigments
15. 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
Correct Rejection
After light passes through receptors
Visual Acuity
16. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
False alarm
Correct Rejection
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
motion parallax
17. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Structuralist Theory
texture gradient
apparent size
Symmetry
18. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Constancy
False alarm
Closure
Neural Pathways
19. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
motion parallax
Outer ear
texture gradient
Proximity
20. Along the visual pathway is the...
Correct Rejection
Sensation
Weber'S Law
Optic Chasm
21. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Cornea
Linear perspective
Gestat Ideas
22. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Ewald Hering
Amplitude
Phi Phenomenon
Visual Pathway
23. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Receiver operating characteristic
Middle ear
Retina
3 steps involving sensation
24. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Mental set
After light passes through receptors
Current thinking about sensation and perception
texture gradient
25. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Ciliary Muscles
Optic Array
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Autokinetic effect
26. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
Receiver operating characteristic
Absolute threshold
Hue
27. Why do cones see better than rods?
Hermann Von Hemholtz
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Fechner'S Law
28. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
The visual pathway
Gestat Ideas
Receiver operating characteristic
Cornea
29. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Impossible Objects
30. 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
Visual Pathway
Hit
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
binoculary disparity
31. 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
Miss
Structuralist Theory
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Optic Chasm
32. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
James Gibson
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Visual Pathway
Depth perception
33. 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
Gestat Ideas
Fovea
Phi Phenomenon
Amplitude
34. 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.
Symmetry
Lens
Correct Rejection
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
35. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Light
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Optic Chasm
36. 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
Mental set
Retina
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Absolute threshold
37. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Weber'S Law
Visual Cliff
Mental set
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
38. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Lateral Inhibition
Hue
Moon Illusion
39. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Brightness
Miss
Reception
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
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.
Optic Chasm
Optic Array
Frequency
Visual Field
41. 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.
motion parallax
Inner ear
Constancy
Ponzo Illusion
42. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Minimum principle
Purkinje shift
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
interposition
43. 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.
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Constancy
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Cones
44. The optic nerve is made up of...
Receiver operating characteristic
interposition
Ganglion cells
James Gibson
45. The way that a single point of light viewed in darkness will appear to shake or move. the reason for this is the movement of our own eyes
Autokinetic effect
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Differential Threshold
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
46. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Amplitude
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Figure and ground relationship
47. 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
Differential Threshold
Receptor Cells
Muller-Lyer Illusion
48. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Rods
Receiver operating characteristic
texture gradient
Minimum principle
49. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
After light passes through receptors
Gestalt Psychology
Depth perception
50. 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
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Autokinetic effect
McCollough Effect
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
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