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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation

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1. The optic nerve is made up of...






2. How we organize or experience sensations






3. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave






4. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference






5. Best at seeing fine details






6. humans best hear at






7. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction






8. 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.






9. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways






10. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye






11. He tendency to group together items that are near each other






12. Has monocular and binocular cues






13. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...






14. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there






15. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light






16. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz






17. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive






18. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.






19. 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.






20. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear






21. 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






22. 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






23. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them






24. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate






25. 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






26. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina






27. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity






28. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.






29. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance






30. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. 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'






34. Along the visual pathway is the...






35. The feeling that results from physical stimulation






36. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array






37. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background






38. 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






39. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures






40. 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.






41. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual






42. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be






43. 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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44. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.






45. 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.






46. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances






47. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists






48. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.






49. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green






50. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.







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