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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Ciliary Muscles
Timbre
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
False alarm
2. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Perceptual Development
Weber'S Law
Response Bias
3. 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
Dark adaptation
Visual Cliff
Rods
The visual pathway
4. 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.
Perception
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Optic Chasm
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
5. 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.
False alarm
motion parallax
Continuation
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
6. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Array
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
After light passes through receptors
Optic Chasm
7. 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
Response Bias
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Brightness
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
James Gibson
Inner ear
apparent size
Robert Frantz
9. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Hit
Impossible Objects
Vision
Middle ear
10. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
Vision
3 steps involving sensation
Closure
11. 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.
Gestalt Psychology
Visual Cliff
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Hit
12. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Neural Pathways
Linear perspective
13. Failing to detect a present stimulus
The visual pathway
apparent size
Response Bias
Miss
14. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Prosopagnosia
Terminal Threshold
Structuralist Theory
James Gibson
15. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
After light passes through receptors
Frequency
Receptor Cells
Sensation
16. 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.
Depth perception
Differential Threshold
Ganglion cells
After light passes through receptors
17. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Brightness
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Neural Pathways
Outer ear
18. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Visual Cliff
Absolute threshold
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Reception
19. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Fovea
Nativist Theory
Minimum principle
Ganglion cells
20. 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
Figure and ground relationship
Lens
Differential Threshold
21. 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.
Optic Array
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Light
Vision
22. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Color constancy
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Ewald Hering
After light passes through receptors
23. Is the inability to recognize faces
interposition
James Gibson
Differential Threshold
Prosopagnosia
24. humans best hear at
1000hz
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Correct Rejection
Brightness
25. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Light
Sensation
Closure
Fechner'S Law
26. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Impossible Objects
Outer ear
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
27. Has monocular and binocular cues
Dark adaptation
Ganglion cells
Depth perception
Moon Illusion
28. 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
Weber'S Law
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Symmetry
Rods
29. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Hue
E.H. Weber
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
30. 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'
Purkinje shift
Visual Cliff
Lateral Inhibition
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
31. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Figure and ground relationship
E.H. Weber
Light
apparent size
32. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Terminal Threshold
Optic Chasm
Moon Illusion
Minimum principle
33. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Size Constancy
Vision
Structuralist Theory
Perception
34. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Miss
Ciliary Muscles
Weber'S Law
Size Constancy
35. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
texture gradient
Correct Rejection
Perceptual Development
Photopigments
36. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Closure
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Cornea
37. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Receiver operating characteristic
Frequency
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Ganglion cells
38. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Retina
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Frequency
39. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Perception
Proximity
Purkinje shift
Dark adaptation
40. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Pragnanz
Mental set
Continuation
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
41. Why do cones see better than rods?
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
1000hz
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Amplitude
42. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Ganglion cells
Cones
Minimum principle
Receptor Cells
43. 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
Amplitude
Reception
Weber'S Law
McCollough Effect
44. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
False alarm
3 steps involving sensation
Hermann Von Hemholtz
E.H. Weber
45. 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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46. 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
Closure
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Size Constancy
47. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Inner ear
Fechner'S Law
Optic Array
texture gradient
48. 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.
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Photopigments
Response Bias
Lateral Inhibition
49. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Neural Pathways
Closure
Terminal Threshold
Light
50. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
apparent size
Visual Acuity
Figure and ground relationship
Terminal Threshold