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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Ewald Hering
False alarm
Autokinetic effect
Visual Acuity
2. 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
Retina
The visual pathway
Constancy
Cornea
3. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Amplitude
Moon Illusion
Minimum principle
4. 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.
Optic Chasm
Gestalt Psychology
motion parallax
Sensation
5. 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
Dark adaptation
Receptor Cells
Pragnanz
McCollough Effect
6. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Constancy
Amplitude
Brightness
Light
7. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
E.H. Weber
Ponzo Illusion
Continuation
Mental set
8. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Sensation
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Current thinking about sensation and perception
9. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Robert Frantz
Ewald Hering
Visual Acuity
The visual pathway
10. The physical intensity of light
Brightness
Continuation
Gestalt Psychology
Middle ear
11. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
Ganglion cells
Outer ear
Ewald Hering
12. 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'
False alarm
Visual Cliff
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Sensation
13. 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.
Receiver operating characteristic
Outer ear
Reception
Optic Chasm
14. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Gestat Ideas
False alarm
binoculary disparity
Frequency
15. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
binoculary disparity
Visual Field
Ciliary Muscles
James Gibson
16. 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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17. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Size Constancy
apparent size
Receptive Field
Ponzo Illusion
18. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Vision
The visual pathway
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Purkinje shift
19. 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
Receiver operating characteristic
Phi Phenomenon
Pragnanz
20. Located by the cornea
3 steps involving sensation
binoculary disparity
Dark adaptation
Lens
21. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Optic Chasm
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Nativist Theory
McCollough Effect
22. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Miss
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Weber'S Law
Robert Frantz
23. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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24. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
James Gibson
Reception
Depth perception
McCollough Effect
25. 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
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Dark adaptation
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
26. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Lens
Rods
Terminal Threshold
Hermann Von Hemholtz
27. Is the inability to recognize faces
Ewald Hering
Neural Pathways
Prosopagnosia
Gestat Ideas
28. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Timbre
3 steps involving sensation
The visual pathway
Constancy
29. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Depth perception
After light passes through receptors
Timbre
Impossible Objects
30. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Continuation
Receptive Field
Proximity
Amplitude
31. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Perception
Impossible Objects
Prosopagnosia
32. How we organize or experience sensations
Lens
Purkinje shift
Perception
Inner ear
33. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
E.H. Weber
Outer ear
1000hz
Symmetry
34. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
The visual pathway
Receptor Cells
Nativist Theory
Optic Array
35. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Robert Frantz
Receptor Cells
motion parallax
Depth perception
36. humans best hear at
Outer ear
1000hz
Continuation
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
37. 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.
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Weber'S Law
The visual pathway
38. 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.
Middle ear
motion parallax
Lateral Inhibition
Gestalt Psychology
39. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Gestat Ideas
texture gradient
motion parallax
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
40. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
1000hz
Receiver operating characteristic
Size Constancy
Color constancy
41. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Terminal Threshold
interposition
Optic Chasm
42. 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
Constancy
Neural Pathways
Figure and ground relationship
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
43. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Robert Frantz
Size Constancy
Current thinking about sensation and perception
44. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
False alarm
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
apparent size
Receptive Field
45. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
3 steps involving sensation
Minimum principle
Visual Field
Sensation
46. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Outer ear
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Closure
Cones
47. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Robert Frantz
Proximity
Hit
Terminal Threshold
48. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Color constancy
Hue
Optic Chasm
Ciliary Muscles
49. 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.
Hit
Gestat Ideas
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Dark adaptation
50. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Miss
Receptor Cells
Hue
Vision