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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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.
False alarm
Structuralist Theory
Visual Field
Optic Chasm
2. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Outer ear
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
The visual pathway
Frequency
3. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
E.H. Weber
Nativist Theory
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Inner ear
4. 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'
Linear perspective
Brightness
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Visual Cliff
5. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Ponzo Illusion
Robert Frantz
Purkinje shift
Lateral Inhibition
6. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Rods
The visual pathway
Minimum principle
Visual Cliff
7. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Visual Cliff
Receptor Cells
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
After light passes through receptors
8. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Gestat Ideas
Lateral Inhibition
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Dark adaptation
9. Along the visual pathway is the...
Absolute threshold
Fovea
Brightness
Optic Chasm
10. The moon looks larger when we see it on the horizon than when we see it in the sky. This is because the horizon contains visual cues that make the moon seem more distant than the overhead sky.
Moon Illusion
McCollough Effect
Inner ear
Current thinking about sensation and perception
11. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Frequency
Perception
binoculary disparity
12. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Gestat Ideas
Pragnanz
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Amplitude
13. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Perceptual Development
Correct Rejection
McCollough Effect
14. humans best hear at
Optic Chasm
James Gibson
Visual Field
1000hz
15. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
Perception
Proximity
Middle ear
16. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Phi Phenomenon
Size Constancy
Differential Threshold
17. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Cones
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
apparent size
Hit
18. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Size Constancy
Cornea
Ewald Hering
Phi Phenomenon
19. Located by the cornea
Depth perception
Perception
Lens
Structuralist Theory
20. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
interposition
Purkinje shift
Cones
Current thinking about sensation and perception
21. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Figure and ground relationship
Receiver operating characteristic
Reception
Miss
22. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Lens
Vision
Amplitude
Ewald Hering
23. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
motion parallax
Absolute threshold
Response Bias
Receptive Field
24. 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
Receptor Cells
Hit
Amplitude
Muller-Lyer Illusion
25. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Sensation
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Cones
26. Why do cones see better than rods?
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Reception
Receiver operating characteristic
Hue
27. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Ewald Hering
Impossible Objects
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Perception
28. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Reception
Pragnanz
Rods
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
29. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Correct Rejection
The visual pathway
Mental set
1000hz
30. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Size Constancy
Visual Acuity
E.H. Weber
Receptor Cells
31. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Purkinje shift
motion parallax
apparent size
Figure and ground relationship
32. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Ewald Hering
Autokinetic effect
The visual pathway
Color constancy
33. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Symmetry
Timbre
Linear perspective
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
34. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Visual Field
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Outer ear
Muller-Lyer Illusion
35. 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.
Vision
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Mental set
Outer ear
36. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Color constancy
Symmetry
motion parallax
3 steps involving sensation
37. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Closure
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
texture gradient
Ciliary Muscles
38. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
interposition
Response Bias
Phi Phenomenon
Closure
39. 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
Lateral Inhibition
motion parallax
Perception
40. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Lateral Inhibition
interposition
motion parallax
Light
41. 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.
motion parallax
Differential Threshold
E.H. Weber
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
42. 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
Purkinje shift
McCollough Effect
Minimum principle
Vision
43. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
3 steps involving sensation
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Receptor Cells
Reception
44. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
James Gibson
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Proximity
45. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Timbre
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Visual Field
The visual pathway
46. 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
Phi Phenomenon
Autokinetic effect
Proximity
Reception
47. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Visual Pathway
Purkinje shift
Visual Acuity
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
48. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Photopigments
apparent size
Mental set
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
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
James Gibson
Robert Frantz
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
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
Mental set
Response Bias
Lateral Inhibition
Middle ear