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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
Middle ear
McCollough Effect
motion parallax
2. Why do cones see better than rods?
Pragnanz
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Closure
Weber'S Law
3. 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.
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Gestat Ideas
Lateral Inhibition
Terminal Threshold
4. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ewald Hering
Purkinje shift
Weber'S Law
Vision
5. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Perception
Outer ear
Visual Pathway
Receptive Field
6. Has monocular and binocular cues
Retina
After light passes through receptors
Depth perception
Phi Phenomenon
7. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Structuralist Theory
Frequency
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Linear perspective
8. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Structuralist Theory
Size Constancy
Continuation
Receptive Field
9. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Pragnanz
Miss
Fovea
Visual Field
10. 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.
Miss
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Mental set
binoculary disparity
11. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Autokinetic effect
Photopigments
Sensation
Linear perspective
12. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Visual Pathway
Optic Chasm
Light
13. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Fechner'S Law
Pragnanz
Visual Acuity
Timbre
14. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Receptive Field
Ewald Hering
After light passes through receptors
interposition
15. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Neural Pathways
Moon Illusion
Gestat Ideas
Symmetry
16. 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.
Optic Chasm
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Phi Phenomenon
Ciliary Muscles
17. The optic nerve is made up of...
Lateral Inhibition
Ganglion cells
Symmetry
Vision
18. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Perception
Figure and ground relationship
Receptor Cells
After light passes through receptors
19. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
interposition
Proximity
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Cones
20. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Terminal Threshold
Constancy
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Optic Array
21. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
The visual pathway
Visual Acuity
Depth perception
Closure
22. 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'
Visual Cliff
binoculary disparity
Visual Field
Perceptual Development
23. 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
Lateral Inhibition
Receptive Field
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
24. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Timbre
Light
Photopigments
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
25. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
apparent size
Linear perspective
Vision
Pragnanz
26. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Nativist Theory
Lens
Proximity
3 steps involving sensation
27. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Brightness
After light passes through receptors
Visual Field
texture gradient
28. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Constancy
Middle ear
James Gibson
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
29. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Differential Threshold
Vision
Linear perspective
Receptor Cells
30. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Receiver operating characteristic
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Lens
3 steps involving sensation
31. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Ciliary Muscles
Mental set
Dark adaptation
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
32. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
binoculary disparity
Terminal Threshold
texture gradient
False alarm
33. 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.
Lateral Inhibition
Gestalt Psychology
McCollough Effect
Middle ear
34. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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35. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Closure
Correct Rejection
Phi Phenomenon
Neural Pathways
36. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Receiver operating characteristic
Robert Frantz
Size Constancy
Prosopagnosia
37. 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
Minimum principle
Structuralist Theory
Phi Phenomenon
Lateral Inhibition
38. 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.
Cones
Constancy
Miss
The visual pathway
39. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Weber'S Law
Middle ear
Correct Rejection
Cornea
40. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Reception
Frequency
Minimum principle
Phi Phenomenon
41. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Timbre
Differential Threshold
Correct Rejection
Color constancy
42. 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
The visual pathway
James Gibson
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
43. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Middle ear
binoculary disparity
Cones
44. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Inner ear
Optic Chasm
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
45. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Absolute threshold
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Perceptual Development
After light passes through receptors
46. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Weber'S Law
1000hz
Sensation
False alarm
47. humans best hear at
1000hz
Sensation
Perceptual Development
Lateral Inhibition
48. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Visual Pathway
Weber'S Law
Hue
49. 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
Color constancy
McCollough Effect
Ewald Hering
Fovea
50. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Absolute threshold
Dark adaptation
1000hz