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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Purkinje shift
Robert Frantz
Inner ear
1000hz
2. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Perception
Receiver operating characteristic
Hue
3. 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
Visual Acuity
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Current thinking about sensation and perception
4. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
Color constancy
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Reception
5. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Nativist Theory
Terminal Threshold
Constancy
Gestat Ideas
6. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Neural Pathways
Closure
Impossible Objects
Symmetry
7. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Nativist Theory
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Ganglion cells
8. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Proximity
Optic Chasm
Absolute threshold
Ponzo Illusion
9. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Photopigments
Perception
Absolute threshold
Inner ear
10. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Vision
Ciliary Muscles
Terminal Threshold
3 steps involving sensation
11. 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
Continuation
After light passes through receptors
Purkinje shift
Closure
12. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Moon Illusion
Pragnanz
motion parallax
Visual Pathway
13. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
False alarm
Response Bias
Phi Phenomenon
Cornea
14. 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
Frequency
Optic Chasm
Sensation
15. Has monocular and binocular cues
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Frequency
Depth perception
Reception
16. The physical intensity of light
The visual pathway
Brightness
Impossible Objects
Structuralist Theory
17. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Structuralist Theory
motion parallax
1000hz
Lateral Inhibition
18. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Reception
Visual Acuity
Robert Frantz
Gestat Ideas
19. 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
Photopigments
Rods
Hue
Constancy
20. 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.
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Pragnanz
Absolute threshold
motion parallax
21. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Reception
Timbre
Depth perception
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
22. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
motion parallax
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Frequency
Ewald Hering
23. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Amplitude
Mental set
Inner ear
Receptive Field
24. 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.
False alarm
Phi Phenomenon
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Structuralist Theory
25. 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
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
texture gradient
Retina
Current thinking about sensation and perception
26. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Rods
Gestalt Psychology
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Receptive Field
27. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Frequency
texture gradient
E.H. Weber
Moon Illusion
28. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Photopigments
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Figure and ground relationship
Lens
29. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Retina
Moon Illusion
Receiver operating characteristic
Ponzo Illusion
30. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Response Bias
Hue
James Gibson
Closure
31. 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
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Sensation
E.H. Weber
32. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Reception
Purkinje shift
Cones
Differential Threshold
33. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Miss
Pragnanz
34. Along the visual pathway is the...
Nativist Theory
Rods
Reception
Optic Chasm
35. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Hit
Correct Rejection
apparent size
Figure and ground relationship
36. 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.
Optic Chasm
Prosopagnosia
Pragnanz
Proximity
37. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Moon Illusion
Neural Pathways
Autokinetic effect
Brightness
38. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Color constancy
Optic Chasm
Size Constancy
Amplitude
39. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Timbre
Reception
Linear perspective
E.H. Weber
40. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Depth perception
Gestalt Psychology
Miss
Neural Pathways
41. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
motion parallax
Ewald Hering
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Symmetry
42. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Minimum principle
After light passes through receptors
Perceptual Development
Moon Illusion
43. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
Hermann Von Hemholtz
E.H. Weber
Miss
44. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
E.H. Weber
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Minimum principle
45. 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'
Sensation
Outer ear
Visual Cliff
Dark adaptation
46. 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.
Lens
Hit
Lateral Inhibition
Cones
47. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Absolute threshold
Terminal Threshold
Retina
Light
48. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
1000hz
Fovea
Hit
Color constancy
49. 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.
Neural Pathways
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Gestat Ideas
Moon Illusion
50. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
1000hz
After light passes through receptors
McCollough Effect
Outer ear