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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Along the visual pathway is the...
Depth perception
Optic Chasm
Hue
Ponzo Illusion
2. 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.
1000hz
Continuation
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Receptor Cells
3. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Visual Field
3 steps involving sensation
The visual pathway
4. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Ciliary Muscles
Hue
Outer ear
Gestalt Psychology
5. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Autokinetic effect
The visual pathway
Receptor Cells
6. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Lateral Inhibition
Purkinje shift
Terminal Threshold
7. 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
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Cones
Closure
1000hz
8. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Perception
Impossible Objects
Constancy
9. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Autokinetic effect
texture gradient
Visual Cliff
Receiver operating characteristic
10. 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.
Differential Threshold
Color constancy
Outer ear
Proximity
11. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Frequency
Optic Array
False alarm
apparent size
12. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Lateral Inhibition
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Phi Phenomenon
Hit
13. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
apparent size
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Frequency
1000hz
14. 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.
Lateral Inhibition
Ewald Hering
Miss
Absolute threshold
15. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Ganglion cells
Neural Pathways
Color constancy
Mental set
16. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Dark adaptation
Inner ear
Outer ear
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
17. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Reception
Perception
Vision
Moon Illusion
18. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Continuation
Closure
Dark adaptation
Brightness
19. Best at seeing fine details
Outer ear
The visual pathway
Visual Acuity
Correct Rejection
20. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Minimum principle
Gestat Ideas
Rods
Current thinking about sensation and perception
21. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Visual Cliff
Ewald Hering
Photopigments
Linear perspective
22. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Photopigments
Middle ear
False alarm
Pragnanz
23. 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.
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Sensation
Ganglion cells
apparent size
24. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Retina
apparent size
Absolute threshold
Frequency
25. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Perceptual Development
Autokinetic effect
Closure
Gestat Ideas
26. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Optic Chasm
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Sensation
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
27. 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
1000hz
Rods
Cornea
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
28. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Receiver operating characteristic
Light
Structuralist Theory
Hue
29. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Fechner'S Law
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Linear perspective
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
30. 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'
Brightness
Visual Cliff
Phi Phenomenon
Visual Acuity
31. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Closure
Figure and ground relationship
Reception
32. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
McCollough Effect
After light passes through receptors
Figure and ground relationship
Depth perception
33. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Prosopagnosia
Hue
motion parallax
Fovea
34. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Outer ear
Closure
Dark adaptation
Prosopagnosia
35. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Robert Frantz
E.H. Weber
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
36. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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37. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
McCollough Effect
Visual Pathway
interposition
38. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Timbre
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Visual Pathway
The visual pathway
39. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Depth perception
apparent size
Optic Array
Cornea
40. 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
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Robert Frantz
Prosopagnosia
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
41. humans best hear at
Inner ear
McCollough Effect
1000hz
Perceptual Development
42. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Ewald Hering
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Impossible Objects
Size Constancy
43. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Neural Pathways
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Frequency
Ponzo Illusion
44. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Ciliary Muscles
Dark adaptation
Continuation
Structuralist Theory
45. 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.
Receiver operating characteristic
Impossible Objects
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Brightness
46. Is the inability to recognize faces
Fovea
Impossible Objects
Prosopagnosia
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
47. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Moon Illusion
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Optic Chasm
Photopigments
48. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Absolute threshold
Visual Field
Fechner'S Law
Robert Frantz
49. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Structuralist Theory
The visual pathway
Size Constancy
Reception
50. 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
Correct Rejection
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Phi Phenomenon