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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
1000hz
Rods
Ciliary Muscles
Neural Pathways
2. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Ganglion cells
Constancy
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Timbre
3. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Fovea
3 steps involving sensation
Outer ear
4. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Proximity
Outer ear
Visual Acuity
Current thinking about sensation and perception
5. The optic nerve is made up of...
Outer ear
Mental set
Ganglion cells
texture gradient
6. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Ciliary Muscles
Ganglion cells
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Symmetry
7. 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
Phi Phenomenon
Fechner'S Law
interposition
Lens
8. 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
Visual Acuity
Outer ear
Constancy
Autokinetic effect
9. 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.
3 steps involving sensation
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Impossible Objects
Dark adaptation
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.
Optic Array
Visual Cliff
Differential Threshold
McCollough Effect
11. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Cones
Symmetry
Hue
Proximity
12. How we organize or experience sensations
1000hz
Symmetry
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Perception
13. 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.
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Structuralist Theory
Correct Rejection
Middle ear
14. 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
3 steps involving sensation
Visual Field
Lateral Inhibition
binoculary disparity
15. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Ganglion cells
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Robert Frantz
Timbre
16. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Weber'S Law
Response Bias
Differential Threshold
Ponzo Illusion
17. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Correct Rejection
Amplitude
Visual Field
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
18. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Mental set
Hue
Weber'S Law
Vision
19. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
texture gradient
False alarm
Optic Chasm
Sensation
20. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Receiver operating characteristic
Linear perspective
Cornea
Phi Phenomenon
21. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Purkinje shift
Receptive Field
Structuralist Theory
E.H. Weber
22. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Correct Rejection
Vision
Fechner'S Law
Size Constancy
23. 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
Phi Phenomenon
McCollough Effect
1000hz
Mental set
24. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Impossible Objects
Minimum principle
motion parallax
25. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Dark adaptation
Hit
Visual Acuity
Miss
26. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Visual Field
Closure
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
False alarm
27. 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.
Fovea
Fechner'S Law
Hue
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
28. 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.
Constancy
Visual Field
Gestat Ideas
Neural Pathways
29. humans best hear at
1000hz
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Ponzo Illusion
After light passes through receptors
30. 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
Optic Array
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Reception
31. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
After light passes through receptors
motion parallax
McCollough Effect
Reception
32. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Visual Cliff
Ciliary Muscles
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Cones
33. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Brightness
The visual pathway
Perceptual Development
Optic Array
34. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Terminal Threshold
Hit
Ewald Hering
Ciliary Muscles
35. 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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36. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Ciliary Muscles
Current thinking about sensation and perception
E.H. Weber
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
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.
After light passes through receptors
Purkinje shift
Inner ear
Outer ear
38. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Receiver operating characteristic
Ganglion cells
Reception
Ciliary Muscles
39. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Mental set
Light
Size Constancy
Optic Chasm
40. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Fovea
apparent size
Gestat Ideas
Receptive Field
41. Has monocular and binocular cues
Perception
Structuralist Theory
Depth perception
Hue
42. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Figure and ground relationship
Weber'S Law
Impossible Objects
Continuation
43. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
interposition
Symmetry
Gestat Ideas
44. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Frequency
Figure and ground relationship
Continuation
Outer ear
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. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Nativist Theory
Robert Frantz
Cones
Minimum principle
47. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Linear perspective
Retina
Figure and ground relationship
Phi Phenomenon
48. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Brightness
texture gradient
Hue
Optic Array
49. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ponzo Illusion
Ewald Hering
Weber'S Law
Hermann Von Hemholtz
50. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
E.H. Weber
James Gibson
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Symmetry