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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Lateral Inhibition
Fovea
Response Bias
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
2. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Visual Field
Timbre
Optic Chasm
Amplitude
3. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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4. 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)
Photopigments
Receiver operating characteristic
Impossible Objects
5. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Response Bias
Structuralist Theory
Figure and ground relationship
Miss
6. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Closure
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Figure and ground relationship
3 steps involving sensation
7. 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.
Correct Rejection
Receptive Field
motion parallax
Autokinetic effect
8. 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.
Frequency
Lateral Inhibition
Hermann Von Hemholtz
McCollough Effect
9. Along the visual pathway is the...
Photopigments
Optic Chasm
Symmetry
Ganglion cells
10. 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
Muller-Lyer Illusion
interposition
Cones
Purkinje shift
11. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
texture gradient
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Proximity
12. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Proximity
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Visual Cliff
13. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
motion parallax
Absolute threshold
Pragnanz
Gestat Ideas
14. 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
Impossible Objects
binoculary disparity
Ganglion cells
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
15. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
False alarm
Robert Frantz
Vision
Visual Acuity
16. Is the inability to recognize faces
Nativist Theory
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Lens
Prosopagnosia
17. 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.
Lens
Fovea
Optic Chasm
Ganglion cells
18. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Retina
Structuralist Theory
Perception
Receptive Field
19. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Ganglion cells
Figure and ground relationship
Receptor Cells
Reception
20. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Outer ear
Mental set
Absolute threshold
James Gibson
21. 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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22. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Color constancy
Visual Cliff
Receptive Field
McCollough Effect
23. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Continuation
Size Constancy
Gestat Ideas
Linear perspective
24. 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.
Reception
Moon Illusion
Terminal Threshold
Symmetry
25. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Ciliary Muscles
Purkinje shift
Visual Pathway
After light passes through receptors
26. 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.
Miss
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Receptive Field
27. Has monocular and binocular cues
James Gibson
After light passes through receptors
Depth perception
Miss
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
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Middle ear
Symmetry
Cornea
29. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Dark adaptation
Differential Threshold
The visual pathway
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
30. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Inner ear
Vision
Miss
Nativist Theory
31. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Fovea
Symmetry
Terminal Threshold
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
32. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Lateral Inhibition
Optic Array
motion parallax
E.H. Weber
33. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Perceptual Development
Miss
Timbre
motion parallax
34. 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'
Visual Cliff
Terminal Threshold
Optic Chasm
Ponzo Illusion
35. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Ewald Hering
False alarm
Minimum principle
Pragnanz
36. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Gestat Ideas
Closure
James Gibson
Frequency
37. We see objects because of the light they reflect
McCollough Effect
Vision
Purkinje shift
interposition
38. 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
Receptive Field
The visual pathway
Autokinetic effect
Neural Pathways
39. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Phi Phenomenon
Differential Threshold
Minimum principle
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
40. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Miss
Ewald Hering
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Prosopagnosia
41. 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.
Size Constancy
Visual Cliff
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
After light passes through receptors
42. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Optic Chasm
texture gradient
Gestalt Psychology
43. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Photopigments
Ciliary Muscles
Retina
Inner ear
44. 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
Lens
Cornea
Visual Pathway
McCollough Effect
45. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Retina
Reception
3 steps involving sensation
Continuation
46. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Rods
Visual Cliff
Perception
Receptive Field
47. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Differential Threshold
Hermann Von Hemholtz
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
48. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Middle ear
Pragnanz
Proximity
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
49. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Figure and ground relationship
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Size Constancy
Lateral Inhibition
50. 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
Cones
Receptor Cells
Inner ear
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells