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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation

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1. Has monocular and binocular cues






2. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists






3. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.






4. The feeling that results from physical stimulation






5. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.






6. 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






7. Is the inability to recognize faces






8. Failing to detect a present stimulus






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






11. 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'






12. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment






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






14. 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.






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






16. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...






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






18. Correctly sensing a stimulus






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






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






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






22. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness






23. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there






24. 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.






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






26. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.






27. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays






28. Along the visual pathway is the...






29. 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.






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






31. Factors into why we see what we expect to see






32. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate






33. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses






34. 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






35. 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






36. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave






37. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures






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






39. 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






40. 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






41. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.






42. 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






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






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






45. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see






46. 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






47. How we organize or experience sensations






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






49. We see objects because of the light they reflect






50. 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