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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
Amplitude
Retina
Color constancy
Mental set
2. 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
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Optic Array
McCollough Effect
Color constancy
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.
Photopigments
Phi Phenomenon
Cornea
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
4. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Symmetry
Ewald Hering
Linear perspective
Terminal Threshold
5. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Color constancy
Photopigments
Impossible Objects
Amplitude
6. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Symmetry
Proximity
Mental set
Moon Illusion
7. 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.
The visual pathway
Lens
Constancy
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
8. 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
Lateral Inhibition
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Moon Illusion
9. 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.
Optic Chasm
Lateral Inhibition
Mental set
The visual pathway
10. 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
Minimum principle
Autokinetic effect
Differential Threshold
Brightness
11. Is the inability to recognize faces
Lateral Inhibition
Phi Phenomenon
Reception
Prosopagnosia
12. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Depth perception
Rods
Gestat Ideas
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
13. The optic nerve is made up of...
binoculary disparity
Ganglion cells
Autokinetic effect
After light passes through receptors
14. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Continuation
Depth perception
texture gradient
Hit
15. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Ciliary Muscles
Moon Illusion
Response Bias
Reception
16. Has monocular and binocular cues
Ewald Hering
Depth perception
Optic Chasm
Lateral Inhibition
17. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Dark adaptation
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
False alarm
Visual Field
18. 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
Constancy
Ewald Hering
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
19. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Lens
Constancy
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Optic Chasm
20. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Sensation
Amplitude
Visual Pathway
Fovea
21. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Figure and ground relationship
Size Constancy
Continuation
Impossible Objects
22. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Receptor Cells
Hit
Outer ear
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
23. Best at seeing fine details
Mental set
False alarm
binoculary disparity
Visual Acuity
24. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Optic Chasm
Fovea
James Gibson
Reception
25. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Fovea
Miss
26. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Constancy
After light passes through receptors
Vision
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
27. 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
Figure and ground relationship
Closure
Neural Pathways
28. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Correct Rejection
Figure and ground relationship
Ciliary Muscles
Timbre
29. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Phi Phenomenon
Dark adaptation
1000hz
Minimum principle
30. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Fechner'S Law
3 steps involving sensation
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
31. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Perceptual Development
Robert Frantz
After light passes through receptors
E.H. Weber
32. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
E.H. Weber
Current thinking about sensation and perception
The visual pathway
Color constancy
33. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Gestalt Psychology
Receptor Cells
Amplitude
1000hz
34. The physical intensity of light
Miss
Dark adaptation
Visual Acuity
Brightness
35. 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.
Differential Threshold
Reception
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Weber'S Law
36. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Receptive Field
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Hue
Frequency
37. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Miss
Size Constancy
Closure
apparent size
38. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Ponzo Illusion
Visual Field
Structuralist Theory
Terminal Threshold
39. 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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40. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Linear perspective
Purkinje shift
Impossible Objects
41. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Proximity
Figure and ground relationship
apparent size
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
Cornea
Phi Phenomenon
McCollough Effect
Linear perspective
43. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
Rods
Cornea
Gestalt Psychology
44. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Nativist Theory
Correct Rejection
Dark adaptation
Cones
45. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
interposition
Closure
Light
46. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Mental set
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Reception
Neural Pathways
47. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Visual Field
Ciliary Muscles
Amplitude
Terminal Threshold
48. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Absolute threshold
Visual Pathway
Impossible Objects
49. Why do cones see better than rods?
Impossible Objects
Fovea
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Ponzo Illusion
50. 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
Weber'S Law
Ewald Hering
binoculary disparity