SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
gre
,
psychology
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Minimum principle
interposition
Correct Rejection
motion parallax
2. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Cones
Absolute threshold
Miss
Gestalt Psychology
3. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Outer ear
Brightness
Rods
4. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Sensation
Impossible Objects
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
5. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
Miss
Middle ear
E.H. Weber
6. 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
Hit
Phi Phenomenon
Impossible Objects
Vision
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.
Constancy
Amplitude
Phi Phenomenon
Lens
8. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Gestalt Psychology
Symmetry
Timbre
Neural Pathways
9. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Constancy
Linear perspective
Vision
Neural Pathways
10. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Reception
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Constancy
3 steps involving sensation
11. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Color constancy
Continuation
Gestalt Psychology
Nativist Theory
12. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Weber'S Law
E.H. Weber
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Size Constancy
13. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Hit
Sensation
Minimum principle
14. Best at seeing fine details
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Symmetry
E.H. Weber
Visual Acuity
15. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Dark adaptation
Moon Illusion
1000hz
Hermann Von Hemholtz
16. 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.
Miss
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Ponzo Illusion
Muller-Lyer Illusion
17. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
apparent size
Visual Pathway
Brightness
Ponzo Illusion
18. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Phi Phenomenon
Receiver operating characteristic
Nativist Theory
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.
Figure and ground relationship
Lateral Inhibition
Lens
Impossible Objects
20. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
Photopigments
Color constancy
Outer ear
21. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
E.H. Weber
Size Constancy
Structuralist Theory
Perceptual Development
22. 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
Structuralist Theory
Proximity
23. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Visual Pathway
Correct Rejection
False alarm
Ciliary Muscles
24. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Frequency
Weber'S Law
Amplitude
25. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Constancy
Reception
Receptive Field
Differential Threshold
26. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Lateral Inhibition
Depth perception
False alarm
Current thinking about sensation and perception
27. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Receptive Field
1000hz
Moon Illusion
Structuralist Theory
28. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Mental set
Gestat Ideas
Dark adaptation
Weber'S Law
29. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Linear perspective
Optic Array
Light
Visual Acuity
30. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Terminal Threshold
Absolute threshold
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
False alarm
31. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Visual Field
Weber'S Law
1000hz
Size Constancy
32. Has monocular and binocular cues
Ponzo Illusion
Depth perception
Size Constancy
Autokinetic effect
33. 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
binoculary disparity
Retina
Outer ear
Optic Chasm
34. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
motion parallax
Pragnanz
After light passes through receptors
Weber'S Law
35. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Size Constancy
Hit
Color constancy
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
36. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
The visual pathway
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Outer ear
Symmetry
37. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Lens
Receiver operating characteristic
Continuation
Fovea
38. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Lens
Differential Threshold
apparent size
Minimum principle
39. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Mental set
Receiver operating characteristic
Terminal Threshold
Visual Pathway
40. 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
Structuralist Theory
Rods
apparent size
Miss
41. 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
Retina
Purkinje shift
Response Bias
McCollough Effect
42. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Absolute threshold
Visual Pathway
Mental set
Ponzo Illusion
43. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Cornea
Visual Acuity
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Weber'S Law
44. How we organize or experience sensations
Perceptual Development
Weber'S Law
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Perception
45. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Structuralist Theory
The visual pathway
Prosopagnosia
Receiver operating characteristic
46. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Visual Pathway
Absolute threshold
47. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Vision
Depth perception
Prosopagnosia
Light
48. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Visual Pathway
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Timbre
apparent size
49. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
apparent size
Autokinetic effect
Amplitude
Sensation
50. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Response Bias
Depth perception
Neural Pathways
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)