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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Robert Frantz
Prosopagnosia
Visual Pathway
Constancy
2. 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.
Miss
Retina
Optic Chasm
Visual Field
3. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Linear perspective
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Lens
4. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Optic Array
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Closure
Constancy
5. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Photopigments
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Receptor Cells
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
6. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Ponzo Illusion
Nativist Theory
After light passes through receptors
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
7. 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
Nativist Theory
Visual Cliff
Weber'S Law
8. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Correct Rejection
Cones
Lateral Inhibition
9. 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.
Closure
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Lateral Inhibition
Gestalt Psychology
10. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
binoculary disparity
Fovea
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Linear perspective
11. 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.
Timbre
Response Bias
Lateral Inhibition
Reception
12. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
False alarm
Hue
Impossible Objects
Inner ear
13. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Differential Threshold
Neural Pathways
Amplitude
Depth perception
14. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Color constancy
Robert Frantz
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Amplitude
15. humans best hear at
interposition
Middle ear
1000hz
Visual Pathway
16. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
motion parallax
Ganglion cells
interposition
Outer ear
17. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Outer ear
Robert Frantz
Miss
Ciliary Muscles
18. 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
Retina
After light passes through receptors
The visual pathway
19. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Visual Field
Mental set
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Current thinking about sensation and perception
20. The physical intensity of light
Brightness
Depth perception
Linear perspective
Visual Field
21. Along the visual pathway is the...
Size Constancy
Optic Chasm
Continuation
Pragnanz
22. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Closure
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Purkinje shift
Cones
23. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Middle ear
Gestat Ideas
interposition
Nativist Theory
24. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Ewald Hering
Amplitude
Timbre
Miss
25. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Color constancy
3 steps involving sensation
Ewald Hering
26. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Mental set
apparent size
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Perception
27. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Rods
Depth perception
Absolute threshold
28. 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
Purkinje shift
Phi Phenomenon
Vision
29. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
James Gibson
Outer ear
Structuralist Theory
Fechner'S Law
30. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Cornea
Purkinje shift
Hit
Light
31. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
texture gradient
Visual Field
Receptive Field
Fechner'S Law
32. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Nativist Theory
Ciliary Muscles
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Vision
33. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Optic Chasm
Linear perspective
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Terminal Threshold
34. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Mental set
Photopigments
Sensation
James Gibson
35. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Optic Chasm
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Ciliary Muscles
Correct Rejection
36. Located by the cornea
Lens
James Gibson
interposition
E.H. Weber
37. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Rods
Proximity
Minimum principle
Differential Threshold
38. Is the inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
The visual pathway
Outer ear
Receiver operating characteristic
39. 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
Gestat Ideas
Robert Frantz
After light passes through receptors
Muller-Lyer Illusion
40. 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
Gestat Ideas
binoculary disparity
Neural Pathways
The visual pathway
41. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Symmetry
Current thinking about sensation and perception
42. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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43. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Light
Visual Pathway
Symmetry
Optic Array
44. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Middle ear
Prosopagnosia
Constancy
Visual Field
45. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Structuralist Theory
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
46. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Sensation
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Miss
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
47. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Ewald Hering
Proximity
Lens
Brightness
48. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Fechner'S Law
Response Bias
Continuation
Visual Cliff
49. 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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50. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Optic Chasm
Response Bias
Ganglion cells
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)