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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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.
Visual Cliff
Vision
James Gibson
Lateral Inhibition
2. Best at seeing fine details
Cones
Hit
Visual Acuity
Inner ear
3. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Moon Illusion
Pragnanz
Hit
Optic Chasm
4. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Receptive Field
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
E.H. Weber
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
5. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
interposition
Hit
3 steps involving sensation
Phi Phenomenon
6. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
binoculary disparity
Reception
texture gradient
Receiver operating characteristic
7. 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
Receptor Cells
Optic Chasm
Autokinetic effect
Continuation
8. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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9. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
apparent size
texture gradient
Rods
Gestat Ideas
10. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Visual Pathway
Optic Array
Amplitude
Timbre
11. 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.
McCollough Effect
Visual Field
Gestalt Psychology
Vision
12. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Timbre
Structuralist Theory
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Reception
13. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
binoculary disparity
McCollough Effect
Ciliary Muscles
14. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Absolute threshold
Amplitude
Gestalt Psychology
Perception
15. Is the inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
Proximity
Minimum principle
Robert Frantz
16. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
The visual pathway
binoculary disparity
Pragnanz
Visual Acuity
17. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Robert Frantz
Size Constancy
Visual Cliff
Hermann Von Hemholtz
18. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Figure and ground relationship
Fovea
Gestat Ideas
Continuation
19. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Lateral Inhibition
Light
E.H. Weber
20. humans best hear at
Cones
1000hz
Impossible Objects
Response Bias
21. 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.
Impossible Objects
Moon Illusion
E.H. Weber
Linear perspective
22. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
Visual Pathway
Proximity
Purkinje shift
23. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Hit
Autokinetic effect
Continuation
Cornea
24. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Lateral Inhibition
Miss
Weber'S Law
Current thinking about sensation and perception
25. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
apparent size
Purkinje shift
Ponzo Illusion
Absolute threshold
26. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Visual Field
Differential Threshold
After light passes through receptors
Minimum principle
27. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Amplitude
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Fechner'S Law
texture gradient
28. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Amplitude
James Gibson
Size Constancy
Mental set
29. 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.
motion parallax
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Amplitude
30. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Vision
Correct Rejection
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
James Gibson
31. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Nativist Theory
Brightness
texture gradient
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
32. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
James Gibson
Visual Cliff
Reception
Correct Rejection
33. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Gestalt Psychology
Robert Frantz
Absolute threshold
Reception
34. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Ciliary Muscles
Robert Frantz
James Gibson
Visual Pathway
35. Why do cones see better than rods?
Color constancy
Continuation
Terminal Threshold
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
36. 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
Depth perception
binoculary disparity
Amplitude
Ewald Hering
37. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Terminal Threshold
Outer ear
Lens
Mental set
38. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Prosopagnosia
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
False alarm
Timbre
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
Constancy
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Inner ear
Outer ear
40. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Terminal Threshold
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Linear perspective
41. 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
Hit
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Optic Chasm
42. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Hue
Visual Cliff
Minimum principle
Prosopagnosia
43. 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
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Rods
Ganglion cells
Pragnanz
44. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Sensation
Constancy
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Photopigments
45. 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
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46. 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
Linear perspective
Cornea
Rods
Purkinje shift
47. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Ewald Hering
Symmetry
Robert Frantz
McCollough Effect
48. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Figure and ground relationship
Impossible Objects
Cornea
49. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Lateral Inhibition
Fechner'S Law
Optic Chasm
Vision
50. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Response Bias
E.H. Weber
False alarm
interposition