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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Closure
Dark adaptation
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
2. Has monocular and binocular cues
Absolute threshold
Visual Pathway
Depth perception
Figure and ground relationship
3. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
The visual pathway
Impossible Objects
Receptive Field
Hue
4. humans best hear at
1000hz
Ganglion cells
Receptor Cells
Inner ear
5. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Hit
Structuralist Theory
Absolute threshold
Size Constancy
6. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Ewald Hering
Proximity
McCollough Effect
Symmetry
7. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
After light passes through receptors
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Neural Pathways
Perception
8. 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
Constancy
The visual pathway
Inner ear
texture gradient
9. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
binoculary disparity
1000hz
Receiver operating characteristic
James Gibson
10. How we organize or experience sensations
Linear perspective
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Autokinetic effect
Perception
11. 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
interposition
Autokinetic effect
Closure
Brightness
12. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Visual Field
Amplitude
Terminal Threshold
Proximity
13. 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
Rods
Robert Frantz
Brightness
binoculary disparity
14. Along the visual pathway is the...
Brightness
Optic Array
Weber'S Law
Optic Chasm
15. 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
Continuation
Visual Cliff
Receptor Cells
Muller-Lyer Illusion
16. 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
Rods
Photopigments
Inner ear
Visual Field
17. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
Differential Threshold
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Response Bias
18. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Hue
1000hz
Optic Chasm
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
19. 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.
Lateral Inhibition
Ponzo Illusion
Fovea
Hue
20. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Hit
Size Constancy
Ewald Hering
Differential Threshold
21. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Robert Frantz
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Rods
Ganglion cells
22. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Outer ear
Perception
Brightness
Fovea
23. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Gestalt Psychology
Timbre
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Cornea
24. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Response Bias
Linear perspective
Outer ear
Impossible Objects
25. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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26. Best at seeing fine details
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Nativist Theory
Visual Acuity
27. 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
motion parallax
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Light
Response Bias
28. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Visual Pathway
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Impossible Objects
29. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Weber'S Law
Gestat Ideas
Symmetry
Hermann Von Hemholtz
30. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Purkinje shift
Visual Field
Frequency
Receptor Cells
31. 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.
Visual Acuity
False alarm
Gestalt Psychology
Perceptual Development
32. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
James Gibson
1000hz
Ganglion cells
Absolute threshold
33. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Outer ear
Cones
Perceptual Development
Impossible Objects
34. Located by the cornea
Vision
Gestalt Psychology
Ganglion cells
Lens
35. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Optic Array
Cones
After light passes through receptors
Sensation
36. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Gestat Ideas
Hit
Neural Pathways
Figure and ground relationship
37. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Closure
James Gibson
After light passes through receptors
False alarm
38. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Hue
Ciliary Muscles
Vision
Fechner'S Law
39. 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
Autokinetic effect
McCollough Effect
Timbre
Constancy
40. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Ewald Hering
Moon Illusion
Pragnanz
Amplitude
41. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Ganglion cells
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Linear perspective
Dark adaptation
42. 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.
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
McCollough Effect
Lens
motion parallax
43. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Brightness
interposition
Fechner'S Law
Ponzo Illusion
44. 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
Symmetry
Sensation
Outer ear
45. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Robert Frantz
After light passes through receptors
Middle ear
46. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Continuation
False alarm
E.H. Weber
47. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Reception
Miss
After light passes through receptors
Impossible Objects
48. 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.
Response Bias
Rods
Inner ear
Differential Threshold
49. 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.
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Weber'S Law
Middle ear
Sensation
50. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Sensation
Amplitude
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Autokinetic effect