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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation

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1. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see






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

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3. 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






4. 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'






5. Best at seeing fine details






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






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






8. Is the inability to recognize faces






9. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference






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






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






12. Along the visual pathway is the...






13. 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.






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






15. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays






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. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.






18. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths






19. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction






20. 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.






21. 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






22. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance






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






24. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...






25. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures






26. 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.






27. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there






28. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green






29. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.






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






31. 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






32. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time






33. Proposed the opponent color/process theory






34. 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






35. Famous for the theory of color blindness






36. Failing to detect a present stimulus






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






38. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances






39. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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






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






46. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses






47. We see objects because of the light they reflect






48. He tendency to group together items that are near each other






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






50. 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