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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation

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1. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible






2. humans best hear at






3. The optic nerve is made up of...






4. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate






5. 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






6. 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






7. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood






8. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference






9. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity






10. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive






11. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron






12. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus






13. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation

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14. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.






15. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on






16. 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.






17. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...






18. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction






19. Factors into why we see what we expect to see






20. 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






21. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.






22. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle






23. How we organize or experience sensations






24. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists






25. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye






26. 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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27. 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






28. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.






29. 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.






30. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.






31. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen






32. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear






33. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light






34. 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.






35. Located by the cornea






36. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them






37. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave






38. 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






39. Is the inability to recognize faces






40. 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






41. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways






42. 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.






43. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be






44. 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






45. Located in the back of the eye - receives light images from the lens. It is composed of about 30 million photoreceptor cells and of other cell layers that process information






46. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.






47. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual






48. Famous for the theory of color blindness






49. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images






50. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array