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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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.
Purkinje shift
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Hit
Autokinetic effect
2. 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
motion parallax
Purkinje shift
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
3. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Proximity
Lateral Inhibition
James Gibson
4. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Proximity
Cornea
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
5. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Structuralist Theory
binoculary disparity
interposition
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
6. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
Cornea
Ciliary Muscles
Correct Rejection
7. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Terminal Threshold
Weber'S Law
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Prosopagnosia
8. Is the inability to recognize faces
Fechner'S Law
Prosopagnosia
Perception
Lens
9. 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 and ground relationship
Structuralist Theory
Continuation
10. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Optic Array
Figure and ground relationship
motion parallax
Current thinking about sensation and perception
11. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Hit
Depth perception
The visual pathway
12. 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
Lens
Rods
False alarm
Outer ear
13. Located by the cornea
Lens
Pragnanz
Cones
Inner ear
14. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Closure
texture gradient
Correct Rejection
Dark adaptation
15. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Receptor Cells
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Receiver operating characteristic
Timbre
16. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
James Gibson
Autokinetic effect
Middle ear
Weber'S Law
17. 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
Response Bias
Lateral Inhibition
Miss
18. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Retina
3 steps involving sensation
Gestalt Psychology
Size Constancy
19. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Mental set
Optic Array
Frequency
Ciliary Muscles
20. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Brightness
Gestalt Psychology
Terminal Threshold
Visual Pathway
21. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Light
Proximity
interposition
Optic Chasm
22. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Receptor Cells
Light
False alarm
Dark adaptation
23. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Photopigments
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Size Constancy
24. 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'
interposition
Symmetry
binoculary disparity
Visual Cliff
25. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Photopigments
Figure and ground relationship
Mental set
The visual pathway
26. 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.
Optic Chasm
Ganglion cells
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
False alarm
27. 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
Reception
Outer ear
Robert Frantz
binoculary disparity
28. 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.
Correct Rejection
Lateral Inhibition
Terminal Threshold
Structuralist Theory
29. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Cones
Correct Rejection
texture gradient
Nativist Theory
30. Best at seeing fine details
Vision
Reception
Receptor Cells
Visual Acuity
31. humans best hear at
Ciliary Muscles
Symmetry
1000hz
Ewald Hering
32. 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
Hit
The visual pathway
Perceptual Development
Middle ear
33. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Absolute threshold
Phi Phenomenon
34. 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.
Brightness
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Gestalt Psychology
Muller-Lyer Illusion
35. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Sensation
Reception
Vision
Pragnanz
36. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Depth perception
Robert Frantz
Lateral Inhibition
37. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Phi Phenomenon
Visual Pathway
Hue
Autokinetic effect
38. The physical intensity of light
Brightness
Outer ear
Color constancy
Retina
39. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Receptive Field
Vision
Timbre
After light passes through receptors
40. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Continuation
Receptive Field
Lens
False alarm
41. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
After light passes through receptors
Symmetry
Purkinje shift
42. How we organize or experience sensations
motion parallax
Perception
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Closure
43. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
After light passes through receptors
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Dark adaptation
Light
44. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Perception
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Ponzo Illusion
Visual Cliff
45. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Ciliary Muscles
1000hz
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Figure and ground relationship
46. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Depth perception
Gestalt Psychology
Brightness
Receptive Field
47. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
Visual Acuity
Fechner'S Law
Gestalt Psychology
48. 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.
Weber'S Law
Receiver operating characteristic
motion parallax
Fechner'S Law
49. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Photopigments
Visual Cliff
Reception
Perceptual Development
50. 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.
Miss
Ganglion cells
Differential Threshold
Inner ear