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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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
Photopigments
Timbre
After light passes through receptors
Retina
2. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Figure and ground relationship
Impossible Objects
Size Constancy
Hermann Von Hemholtz
3. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Mental set
Photopigments
Minimum principle
Linear perspective
4. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
texture gradient
The visual pathway
Outer ear
Purkinje shift
5. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Ponzo Illusion
Visual Cliff
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
6. 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
Gestat Ideas
Brightness
binoculary disparity
Linear perspective
7. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Gestat Ideas
Visual Field
Linear perspective
Impossible Objects
8. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Absolute threshold
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
E.H. Weber
Amplitude
9. 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'
Optic Array
Robert Frantz
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Visual Cliff
10. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Color constancy
Mental set
After light passes through receptors
3 steps involving sensation
11. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Visual Pathway
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Vision
12. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Cones
Miss
texture gradient
13. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
1000hz
Minimum principle
Receptor Cells
Sensation
14. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Perception
Constancy
Cornea
Absolute threshold
15. Is the inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
Cornea
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Gestalt Psychology
16. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Receptor Cells
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Cones
Moon Illusion
17. 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
Hue
Differential Threshold
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Size Constancy
18. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Nativist Theory
E.H. Weber
Visual Pathway
texture gradient
19. 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
Symmetry
Light
Middle ear
binoculary disparity
20. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Structuralist Theory
Middle ear
binoculary disparity
Impossible Objects
21. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Size Constancy
Light
22. Best at seeing fine details
Ponzo Illusion
Response Bias
Visual Acuity
Visual Cliff
23. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Neural Pathways
Robert Frantz
Hit
Retina
24. 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
The visual pathway
Fechner'S Law
Inner ear
Pragnanz
25. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Figure and ground relationship
Optic Chasm
Lateral Inhibition
Hit
26. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Ponzo Illusion
27. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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28. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Structuralist Theory
Timbre
Hermann Von Hemholtz
apparent size
29. Why do cones see better than rods?
Rods
Structuralist Theory
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Proximity
30. 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.
Correct Rejection
Optic Array
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
texture gradient
31. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Cones
Timbre
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
texture gradient
32. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Symmetry
Proximity
Structuralist Theory
Light
33. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Receptor Cells
After light passes through receptors
interposition
Timbre
34. The physical intensity of light
Gestalt Psychology
Brightness
Middle ear
McCollough Effect
35. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Vision
Amplitude
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Cornea
36. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Receiver operating characteristic
Fechner'S Law
Miss
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
37. 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.
Sensation
Optic Chasm
Receiver operating characteristic
Closure
38. Correctly sensing a stimulus
After light passes through receptors
Hit
Hue
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
39. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ponzo Illusion
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Dark adaptation
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
40. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Continuation
Hit
Hermann Von Hemholtz
texture gradient
41. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Hit
Depth perception
McCollough Effect
Sensation
42. 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.
Brightness
Terminal Threshold
Constancy
Receptor Cells
43. 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
Ganglion cells
Lateral Inhibition
Differential Threshold
44. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
Cornea
texture gradient
E.H. Weber
45. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Lens
Figure and ground relationship
Response Bias
E.H. Weber
46. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Receptor Cells
Visual Cliff
Optic Chasm
James Gibson
47. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
James Gibson
3 steps involving sensation
The visual pathway
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
48. 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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49. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Photopigments
Minimum principle
apparent size
50. 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.
Miss
After light passes through receptors
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Moon Illusion
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