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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Response Bias
Perception
After light passes through receptors
2. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Closure
Pragnanz
Hue
Light
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
Receptor Cells
Reception
Rods
Cones
4. 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
Constancy
Purkinje shift
Receiver operating characteristic
1000hz
5. Suggests that subjects detect stimuli not only because they can but also because they want to. TSD factors motivation into the picture.
6. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Pragnanz
Light
Frequency
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
7. Located by the cornea
Lens
Outer ear
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Mental set
8. 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.
motion parallax
Depth perception
Perceptual Development
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
9. 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
binoculary disparity
False alarm
Pragnanz
Impossible Objects
10. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Reception
Visual Field
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Outer ear
11. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
12. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
interposition
McCollough Effect
1000hz
13. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Frequency
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Vision
Constancy
14. 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
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Phi Phenomenon
Optic Array
15. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Sensation
Minimum principle
Correct Rejection
Constancy
16. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Receptive Field
James Gibson
Cones
Structuralist Theory
17. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Size Constancy
Prosopagnosia
texture gradient
Neural Pathways
18. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Timbre
Correct Rejection
Middle ear
Gestat Ideas
19. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Symmetry
Correct Rejection
Nativist Theory
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
20. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Visual Cliff
E.H. Weber
Reception
21. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
3 steps involving sensation
False alarm
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
22. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Hit
Visual Field
E.H. Weber
Sensation
23. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Size Constancy
Color constancy
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Receptor Cells
24. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Receiver operating characteristic
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Optic Chasm
Cones
25. 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
Impossible Objects
Amplitude
Inner ear
Gestat Ideas
26. Has monocular and binocular cues
After light passes through receptors
Linear perspective
Depth perception
Visual Acuity
27. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Dark adaptation
Receptor Cells
Correct Rejection
The visual pathway
28. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Lateral Inhibition
Receptive Field
McCollough Effect
29. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Constancy
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
30. 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
Nativist Theory
binoculary disparity
Gestalt Psychology
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
31. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Miss
Symmetry
Frequency
Vision
32. 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.
3 steps involving sensation
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Optic Chasm
Gestalt Psychology
33. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Visual Acuity
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Ponzo Illusion
Visual Field
34. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Receptive Field
Receiver operating characteristic
Absolute threshold
Continuation
35. Along the visual pathway is the...
Perception
Optic Chasm
Fechner'S Law
Closure
36. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Photopigments
Constancy
Gestat Ideas
Prosopagnosia
37. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
motion parallax
Timbre
Visual Field
The visual pathway
38. 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.
Figure and ground relationship
Size Constancy
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Differential Threshold
39. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Figure and ground relationship
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
3 steps involving sensation
Fovea
40. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
texture gradient
Hit
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
41. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Mental set
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Robert Frantz
Visual Acuity
42. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Neural Pathways
Constancy
Sensation
43. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Visual Cliff
interposition
Cornea
Optic Chasm
44. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Retina
Ciliary Muscles
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
45. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Frequency
Muller-Lyer Illusion
False alarm
46. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Color constancy
Phi Phenomenon
False alarm
Hit
47. 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
James Gibson
Moon Illusion
Rods
48. Applies to all senses but only to a limited range of intensities. The law states that a stimulus needs to be increased by a constant fraction of its original value in order to be noticeably different
49. Is the inability to recognize faces
Amplitude
Gestat Ideas
Ciliary Muscles
Prosopagnosia
50. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Prosopagnosia
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Fechner'S Law
Weber'S Law