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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Pragnanz
binoculary disparity
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
James Gibson
2. 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
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
False alarm
Nativist Theory
3. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
McCollough Effect
Proximity
Optic Array
Size Constancy
4. humans best hear at
Autokinetic effect
1000hz
Weber'S Law
Miss
5. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Ewald Hering
Nativist Theory
Reception
Structuralist Theory
6. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Response Bias
Symmetry
Figure and ground relationship
Size Constancy
7. 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.
Amplitude
Lens
Differential Threshold
Pragnanz
8. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Lateral Inhibition
1000hz
Vision
Differential Threshold
9. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Rods
Size Constancy
Moon Illusion
Sensation
10. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Robert Frantz
Symmetry
Visual Pathway
Pragnanz
11. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Ponzo Illusion
Ganglion cells
Depth perception
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
12. 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
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Size Constancy
Autokinetic effect
Sensation
13. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Ganglion cells
Mental set
Optic Chasm
Vision
14. 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
Nativist Theory
Inner ear
Ewald Hering
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
15. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Ponzo Illusion
3 steps involving sensation
McCollough Effect
Timbre
16. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ewald Hering
E.H. Weber
Size Constancy
Phi Phenomenon
17. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Frequency
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Hit
Continuation
18. 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
Visual Acuity
McCollough Effect
Weber'S Law
Timbre
19. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Light
The visual pathway
Optic Chasm
Receptive Field
20. 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.
Terminal Threshold
Structuralist Theory
Correct Rejection
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
21. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Mental set
Optic Chasm
22. 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
3 steps involving sensation
Purkinje shift
Pragnanz
Moon Illusion
23. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Lens
Ciliary Muscles
Outer ear
24. 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
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Phi Phenomenon
Mental set
Terminal Threshold
25. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Moon Illusion
Closure
Terminal Threshold
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
26. 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
Optic Chasm
Middle ear
Visual Acuity
Receiver operating characteristic
27. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Frequency
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Gestat Ideas
28. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Closure
Outer ear
Optic Chasm
Hermann Von Hemholtz
29. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Receiver operating characteristic
Hit
Brightness
Vision
30. The optic nerve is made up of...
Robert Frantz
Rods
Ganglion cells
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
31. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Visual Pathway
Visual Cliff
Proximity
Perceptual Development
32. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Visual Pathway
Receiver operating characteristic
33. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Pragnanz
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Color constancy
34. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Receptive Field
Brightness
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Figure and ground relationship
35. 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.
Response Bias
motion parallax
Depth perception
Inner ear
36. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Receiver operating characteristic
Impossible Objects
Amplitude
binoculary disparity
37. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Closure
Absolute threshold
Lateral Inhibition
Vision
38. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
E.H. Weber
3 steps involving sensation
Purkinje shift
binoculary disparity
39. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Lens
Cones
1000hz
40. 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
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
motion parallax
Retina
Minimum principle
41. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Linear perspective
Minimum principle
Outer ear
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
42. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Optic Chasm
Sensation
Proximity
Cornea
43. 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
Structuralist Theory
Dark adaptation
Rods
Lateral Inhibition
44. The moon looks larger when we see it on the horizon than when we see it in the sky. This is because the horizon contains visual cues that make the moon seem more distant than the overhead sky.
Correct Rejection
Moon Illusion
After light passes through receptors
Linear perspective
45. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Terminal Threshold
Rods
Perceptual Development
Visual Pathway
46. Failing to detect a present stimulus
motion parallax
Receptor Cells
Miss
Frequency
47. 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.
texture gradient
Color constancy
Ciliary Muscles
Lateral Inhibition
48. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Retina
Structuralist Theory
Visual Acuity
1000hz
49. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
Outer ear
Frequency
Reception
50. 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
Absolute threshold
binoculary disparity
Nativist Theory
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
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