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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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
Gestalt Psychology
Optic Chasm
Linear perspective
2. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Continuation
Receptive Field
Size Constancy
binoculary disparity
3. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
motion parallax
Color constancy
Differential Threshold
Optic Chasm
4. Located by the cornea
Lens
Minimum principle
Visual Acuity
Absolute threshold
5. 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
Closure
Inner ear
Visual Acuity
6. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
interposition
motion parallax
Reception
Visual Pathway
7. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Perceptual Development
False alarm
Cornea
Receiver operating characteristic
8. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Gestalt Psychology
Prosopagnosia
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Optic Chasm
9. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
interposition
James Gibson
binoculary disparity
10. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Vision
1000hz
Continuation
Gestat Ideas
11. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Phi Phenomenon
Lateral Inhibition
Purkinje shift
Absolute threshold
12. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Response Bias
Visual Cliff
Amplitude
13. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Brightness
McCollough Effect
Photopigments
E.H. Weber
14. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Amplitude
False alarm
Visual Pathway
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
15. 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
Rods
Miss
Closure
Phi Phenomenon
16. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Terminal Threshold
Inner ear
Symmetry
Proximity
17. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Autokinetic effect
Absolute threshold
Cornea
Structuralist Theory
18. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Reception
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
apparent size
Ciliary Muscles
19. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Visual Cliff
Pragnanz
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Linear perspective
20. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
motion parallax
Closure
Nativist Theory
Autokinetic effect
21. 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
Brightness
interposition
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Amplitude
22. Why do cones see better than rods?
Gestat Ideas
Vision
Brightness
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
23. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Neural Pathways
Dark adaptation
Closure
Constancy
24. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Optic Array
Terminal Threshold
Gestalt Psychology
Figure and ground relationship
25. 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.
Terminal Threshold
Miss
Ponzo Illusion
motion parallax
26. How we organize or experience sensations
Nativist Theory
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Perception
Constancy
27. Is the inability to recognize faces
Autokinetic effect
Correct Rejection
Prosopagnosia
Inner ear
28. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Rods
Sensation
Gestat Ideas
3 steps involving sensation
29. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Phi Phenomenon
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Continuation
30. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Optic Array
Amplitude
Receiver operating characteristic
Autokinetic effect
31. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
E.H. Weber
Outer ear
After light passes through receptors
32. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
E.H. Weber
Proximity
Amplitude
Photopigments
33. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Ganglion cells
Amplitude
Middle ear
Dark adaptation
34. 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
Autokinetic effect
Optic Chasm
Phi Phenomenon
Continuation
35. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Correct Rejection
Vision
Optic Chasm
Nativist Theory
36. 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.
Rods
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Timbre
Optic Chasm
37. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Pragnanz
Response Bias
Middle ear
Dark adaptation
38. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Terminal Threshold
Purkinje shift
motion parallax
Robert Frantz
39. 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
Depth perception
Middle ear
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Visual Pathway
40. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Purkinje shift
Visual Cliff
Absolute threshold
Correct Rejection
41. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Fovea
Perceptual Development
Structuralist Theory
Visual Field
42. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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43. 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
McCollough Effect
Mental set
Visual Acuity
False alarm
44. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
The visual pathway
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Minimum principle
Receptive Field
45. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Hit
Amplitude
Visual Pathway
Receptive Field
46. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Gestat Ideas
Sensation
Optic Chasm
47. 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.
texture gradient
Continuation
Autokinetic effect
Lateral Inhibition
48. 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.
Gestalt Psychology
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Ciliary Muscles
James Gibson
49. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Optic Chasm
Hue
Outer ear
texture gradient
50. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Timbre
3 steps involving sensation
McCollough Effect
Minimum principle
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