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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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
Optic Array
Frequency
James Gibson
2. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Neural Pathways
Weber'S Law
Visual Acuity
3 steps involving sensation
3. The optic nerve is made up of...
Mental set
Absolute threshold
Rods
Ganglion cells
4. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Amplitude
James Gibson
Symmetry
1000hz
5. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Robert Frantz
Fechner'S Law
Receptor Cells
6. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Timbre
Visual Acuity
The visual pathway
Pragnanz
7. 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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8. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Purkinje shift
Cornea
Constancy
Current thinking about sensation and perception
9. humans best hear at
1000hz
Reception
Receiver operating characteristic
3 steps involving sensation
10. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Hit
Differential Threshold
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Hermann Von Hemholtz
11. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
3 steps involving sensation
Structuralist Theory
Moon Illusion
12. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Neural Pathways
Visual Cliff
Proximity
Minimum principle
13. The physical intensity of light
Moon Illusion
Brightness
Impossible Objects
Visual Acuity
14. 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
Dark adaptation
Perceptual Development
Inner ear
Size Constancy
15. 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
Phi Phenomenon
Rods
Symmetry
Perception
16. 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
After light passes through receptors
Visual Pathway
Purkinje shift
Sensation
17. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Response Bias
Vision
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Hue
18. 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
Perception
Minimum principle
Dark adaptation
19. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
McCollough Effect
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Visual Field
Gestat Ideas
20. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Closure
Prosopagnosia
Visual Acuity
Response Bias
21. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Hue
Terminal Threshold
Brightness
22. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Miss
Terminal Threshold
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Phi Phenomenon
23. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Structuralist Theory
Light
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Prosopagnosia
24. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Gestat Ideas
Photopigments
Lens
Receptive Field
25. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Visual Pathway
Sensation
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
26. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
E.H. Weber
Ponzo Illusion
Visual Pathway
27. 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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28. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Receptor Cells
James Gibson
Receiver operating characteristic
29. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Cornea
Perceptual Development
apparent size
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
30. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
Hue
Impossible Objects
Cornea
31. 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
Cones
Phi Phenomenon
Nativist Theory
Lens
32. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Correct Rejection
Receiver operating characteristic
Absolute threshold
Neural Pathways
33. Along the visual pathway is the...
Hit
Weber'S Law
Retina
Optic Chasm
34. 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.
Dark adaptation
Visual Cliff
Constancy
Impossible Objects
35. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Ciliary Muscles
Brightness
Gestat Ideas
Sensation
36. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Constancy
False alarm
1000hz
Pragnanz
37. Is the inability to recognize faces
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Prosopagnosia
Structuralist Theory
Response Bias
38. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Robert Frantz
Light
Size Constancy
Sensation
39. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Closure
Impossible Objects
Optic Array
motion parallax
40. 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
interposition
Receiver operating characteristic
Outer ear
41. 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
Hermann Von Hemholtz
False alarm
Outer ear
42. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Continuation
Moon Illusion
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Ewald Hering
43. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Size Constancy
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Linear perspective
Hit
44. 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'
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
texture gradient
Optic Chasm
Visual Cliff
45. 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
McCollough Effect
Lens
Pragnanz
Receptive Field
46. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Visual Pathway
Hue
Receptor Cells
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
47. 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 Array
Lateral Inhibition
1000hz
Color constancy
48. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Terminal Threshold
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Retina
49. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
The visual pathway
Middle ear
James Gibson
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
Middle ear
Continuation
Gestat Ideas
Purkinje shift