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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Dark adaptation
Correct Rejection
Ewald Hering
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
2. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ewald Hering
The visual pathway
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
3. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Amplitude
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Timbre
Continuation
4. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Linear perspective
Ganglion cells
Symmetry
Optic Chasm
5. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Size Constancy
apparent size
Rods
Cornea
6. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Gestat Ideas
Retina
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Structuralist Theory
7. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Structuralist Theory
Absolute threshold
Light
apparent size
8. 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.
Proximity
The visual pathway
Nativist Theory
Constancy
9. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Hue
Dark adaptation
Depth perception
Structuralist Theory
10. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Symmetry
Impossible Objects
Hit
Ganglion cells
11. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Visual Field
Outer ear
Reception
Visual Pathway
12. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Reception
Miss
Purkinje shift
Correct Rejection
13. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Receiver operating characteristic
James Gibson
Hue
Proximity
14. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Terminal Threshold
Hue
Rods
Neural Pathways
15. 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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16. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
McCollough Effect
Cones
Pragnanz
Frequency
17. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Light
Continuation
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Neural Pathways
18. 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.
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
motion parallax
Robert Frantz
binoculary disparity
19. 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
Constancy
Closure
Retina
Light
20. 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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21. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Fovea
Moon Illusion
22. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Continuation
Optic Chasm
Phi Phenomenon
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
23. 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.
Impossible Objects
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Continuation
Minimum principle
24. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Moon Illusion
Perceptual Development
Reception
Hue
25. 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
McCollough Effect
Rods
False alarm
Visual Field
26. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Vision
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Frequency
27. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Visual Cliff
Brightness
Fovea
Impossible Objects
28. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Middle ear
False alarm
motion parallax
Symmetry
29. 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
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Color constancy
motion parallax
30. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
After light passes through receptors
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Inner ear
31. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Purkinje shift
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Constancy
motion parallax
32. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Frequency
Ciliary Muscles
Cones
33. Why do cones see better than rods?
McCollough Effect
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Ganglion cells
34. Correctly sensing a stimulus
texture gradient
Sensation
Hit
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
35. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
McCollough Effect
Hit
Reception
Receptive Field
36. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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37. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Autokinetic effect
Minimum principle
E.H. Weber
Visual Field
38. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Continuation
Symmetry
Ciliary Muscles
39. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Hit
Differential Threshold
Ciliary Muscles
Amplitude
40. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
The visual pathway
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Cones
Miss
41. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Moon Illusion
Prosopagnosia
Lateral Inhibition
Ciliary Muscles
42. Best at seeing fine details
Response Bias
Ewald Hering
Visual Acuity
Sensation
43. The optic nerve is made up of...
Visual Cliff
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Weber'S Law
Ganglion cells
44. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Cones
After light passes through receptors
interposition
45. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Closure
3 steps involving sensation
The visual pathway
Constancy
46. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Response Bias
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Lateral Inhibition
Sensation
47. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Receptor Cells
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Nativist Theory
Visual Field
48. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ewald Hering
Lateral Inhibition
Optic Chasm
motion parallax
49. 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.
Vision
Minimum principle
Gestat Ideas
Lateral Inhibition
50. 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
Middle ear
Terminal Threshold
Miss
Ponzo Illusion
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