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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Has monocular and binocular cues
Closure
Vision
Depth perception
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
2. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Minimum principle
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Correct Rejection
3 steps involving sensation
3. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Optic Chasm
E.H. Weber
Outer ear
The visual pathway
4. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
The visual pathway
Nativist Theory
Sensation
Rods
5. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Gestalt Psychology
Closure
Pragnanz
interposition
6. 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
1000hz
Light
McCollough Effect
Retina
7. Is the inability to recognize faces
Color constancy
Optic Array
Prosopagnosia
Vision
8. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Depth perception
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Miss
Retina
9. 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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10. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Size Constancy
Robert Frantz
Visual Field
Closure
11. 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 Field
Gestat Ideas
Fechner'S Law
Visual Cliff
12. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Dark adaptation
Vision
Purkinje shift
Ewald Hering
13. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Cornea
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Hue
14. 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.
Gestalt Psychology
Constancy
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Lens
15. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Brightness
Inner ear
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
16. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Photopigments
3 steps involving sensation
17. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Sensation
Retina
Constancy
18. Correctly sensing a stimulus
apparent size
Visual Cliff
Visual Field
Hit
19. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Proximity
Color constancy
Impossible Objects
Response Bias
20. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
1000hz
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Figure and ground relationship
21. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Light
Terminal Threshold
Constancy
Receptor Cells
22. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Receptive Field
Figure and ground relationship
apparent size
23. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
False alarm
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Weber'S Law
Fechner'S Law
24. 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
James Gibson
Gestat Ideas
Linear perspective
25. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Purkinje shift
Gestalt Psychology
Differential Threshold
26. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Receptive Field
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Depth perception
Reception
27. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Light
Ganglion cells
Robert Frantz
The visual pathway
28. Along the visual pathway is the...
Photopigments
Optic Chasm
Gestalt Psychology
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
29. 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.
Visual Cliff
Gestat Ideas
Gestalt Psychology
Symmetry
30. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
apparent size
Robert Frantz
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Gestat Ideas
31. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Mental set
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Visual Cliff
Miss
32. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Middle ear
McCollough Effect
Nativist Theory
33. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Terminal Threshold
Linear perspective
Response Bias
texture gradient
34. 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
Autokinetic effect
Symmetry
Receptor Cells
Visual Pathway
35. 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
Constancy
Visual Acuity
Continuation
Middle ear
36. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Cornea
Timbre
Brightness
Response Bias
37. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Structuralist Theory
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Prosopagnosia
Closure
38. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
texture gradient
Minimum principle
Size Constancy
Purkinje shift
39. 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
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Nativist Theory
Continuation
40. Is the way that perceived color brightness changes with the level of illumination in the room. With lower levels of illumination - the extremes of the color spectrum (especially red) are seen as less bright
Impossible Objects
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Purkinje shift
Ciliary Muscles
41. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
E.H. Weber
Visual Pathway
Perception
Mental set
42. 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
Mental set
Nativist Theory
Vision
Muller-Lyer Illusion
43. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
Middle ear
Response Bias
Visual Field
44. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Middle ear
Frequency
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
texture gradient
45. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
The visual pathway
Minimum principle
Purkinje shift
Hit
46. 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
Miss
Inner ear
binoculary disparity
Terminal Threshold
47. How we organize or experience sensations
motion parallax
Receptor Cells
Perception
Vision
48. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fechner'S Law
Fovea
apparent size
Receptor Cells
49. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Terminal Threshold
Perception
Vision
Outer ear
50. 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
Optic Chasm
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Receptive Field