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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Optic Array
Robert Frantz
Continuation
Visual Cliff
2. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Fechner'S Law
Brightness
Figure and ground relationship
Ewald Hering
3. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Visual Cliff
Gestat Ideas
Hermann Von Hemholtz
4. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Response Bias
binoculary disparity
Ewald Hering
Gestat Ideas
5. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Size Constancy
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Light
Optic Chasm
6. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
The visual pathway
motion parallax
Optic Array
Symmetry
7. 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.
Brightness
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Lateral Inhibition
Color constancy
8. 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
Impossible Objects
Dark adaptation
Terminal Threshold
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
9. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Receptive Field
Light
McCollough Effect
E.H. Weber
10. 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.
Timbre
Optic Chasm
Purkinje shift
Middle ear
11. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Proximity
Optic Chasm
binoculary disparity
Retina
12. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Miss
Mental set
Lateral Inhibition
Depth perception
13. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Dark adaptation
Ponzo Illusion
Moon Illusion
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
14. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Robert Frantz
Moon Illusion
apparent size
Weber'S Law
15. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Symmetry
Neural Pathways
Ponzo Illusion
Gestat Ideas
16. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Symmetry
Correct Rejection
Cornea
Constancy
17. 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
Depth perception
Hue
Absolute threshold
18. humans best hear at
Proximity
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
1000hz
Ewald Hering
19. 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.
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Differential Threshold
Receptive Field
Visual Pathway
20. The physical intensity of light
Autokinetic effect
Brightness
Proximity
Lateral Inhibition
21. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Pragnanz
Absolute threshold
After light passes through receptors
Gestalt Psychology
22. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Optic Chasm
Brightness
23. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
texture gradient
Amplitude
Visual Pathway
24. 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.
James Gibson
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Constancy
Absolute threshold
25. 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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26. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Pragnanz
Color constancy
Photopigments
Hue
27. 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
Retina
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Brightness
28. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
binoculary disparity
Ganglion cells
Ponzo Illusion
29. Located by the cornea
Correct Rejection
3 steps involving sensation
Lens
Mental set
30. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Optic Chasm
Prosopagnosia
Response Bias
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
31. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
texture gradient
Correct Rejection
Autokinetic effect
Fovea
32. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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33. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Neural Pathways
Middle ear
Frequency
Gestalt Psychology
34. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Miss
Reception
Rods
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
35. The optic nerve is made up of...
Cones
Ganglion cells
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Sensation
36. 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
Inner ear
Frequency
Ciliary Muscles
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
37. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Depth perception
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Absolute threshold
Perceptual Development
38. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
apparent size
Muller-Lyer Illusion
E.H. Weber
False alarm
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
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Middle ear
After light passes through receptors
Differential Threshold
40. 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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41. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
After light passes through receptors
Symmetry
Ewald Hering
Moon Illusion
42. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Timbre
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Proximity
43. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
James Gibson
Ewald Hering
Gestat Ideas
Miss
44. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
McCollough Effect
Constancy
Photopigments
Optic Array
45. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Miss
Middle ear
Perception
Neural Pathways
46. 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
Response Bias
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Purkinje shift
Autokinetic effect
47. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Perceptual Development
After light passes through receptors
Linear perspective
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
48. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Cornea
Hit
Lateral Inhibition
49. 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
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Vision
Size Constancy
binoculary disparity
50. 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)
McCollough Effect
Pragnanz
Size Constancy