SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
gre
,
psychology
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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.
Gestat Ideas
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Optic Chasm
1000hz
2. 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.
Robert Frantz
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Differential Threshold
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
3. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Symmetry
Cones
Autokinetic effect
False alarm
4. 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'
Weber'S Law
Visual Cliff
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Prosopagnosia
5. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Visual Cliff
Linear perspective
Neural Pathways
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
6. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Light
Figure and ground relationship
Reception
7. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Robert Frantz
Inner ear
Closure
Current thinking about sensation and perception
8. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Lens
Neural Pathways
Pragnanz
Vision
9. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
10. Suggests that subjects detect stimuli not only because they can but also because they want to. TSD factors motivation into the picture.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
11. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Depth perception
Cornea
Optic Chasm
texture gradient
12. 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.
Constancy
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
motion parallax
Ganglion cells
13. 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
Autokinetic effect
Terminal Threshold
Optic Chasm
Middle ear
14. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Pragnanz
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Ewald Hering
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
15. 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
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
16. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Frequency
Dark adaptation
Ponzo Illusion
Linear perspective
17. 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.
Timbre
Pragnanz
binoculary disparity
Lateral Inhibition
18. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Lens
Structuralist Theory
Prosopagnosia
19. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Ponzo Illusion
Neural Pathways
Hit
Cones
20. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
Sensation
Current thinking about sensation and perception
3 steps involving sensation
21. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Gestalt Psychology
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
McCollough Effect
Terminal Threshold
22. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
texture gradient
interposition
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Fechner'S Law
23. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Perception
Mental set
Perceptual Development
Dark adaptation
24. 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
Miss
Prosopagnosia
Autokinetic effect
Constancy
25. 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
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Constancy
Robert Frantz
Purkinje shift
26. The physical intensity of light
Constancy
Structuralist Theory
Perceptual Development
Brightness
27. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Vision
Response Bias
28. The optic nerve is made up of...
Inner ear
Optic Chasm
Ganglion cells
Ewald Hering
29. 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
Receiver operating characteristic
Gestat Ideas
Phi Phenomenon
E.H. Weber
30. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Outer ear
Receptor Cells
Gestalt Psychology
Mental set
31. 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
Gestat Ideas
Muller-Lyer Illusion
1000hz
Linear perspective
32. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Mental set
Nativist Theory
E.H. Weber
Hermann Von Hemholtz
33. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Amplitude
Fovea
Ewald Hering
Retina
34. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Structuralist Theory
Miss
Proximity
Prosopagnosia
35. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Receiver operating characteristic
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
36. 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.
Moon Illusion
Symmetry
Prosopagnosia
Hue
37. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Cornea
Receptive Field
Color constancy
Optic Array
38. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Absolute threshold
Vision
Impossible Objects
apparent size
39. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Outer ear
Reception
Depth perception
Optic Chasm
40. Located by the cornea
Reception
Receptor Cells
Cones
Lens
41. 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
Inner ear
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Cornea
Middle ear
42. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Robert Frantz
Miss
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Size Constancy
43. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Visual Field
E.H. Weber
False alarm
texture gradient
44. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Color constancy
Differential Threshold
Receiver operating characteristic
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
45. Why do cones see better than rods?
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Hit
Nativist Theory
46. 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
Amplitude
Ganglion cells
Ciliary Muscles
47. Along the visual pathway is the...
Lens
Timbre
Middle ear
Optic Chasm
48. Is the inability to recognize faces
Moon Illusion
Optic Chasm
Prosopagnosia
Correct Rejection
49. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Correct Rejection
Dark adaptation
Depth perception
Hit
50. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Dark adaptation
Absolute threshold
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex