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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Structuralist Theory
Dark adaptation
Visual Pathway
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
2. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Visual Cliff
interposition
Receptive Field
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
3. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Lens
Fechner'S Law
Nativist Theory
4. 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
Frequency
Inner ear
Gestalt Psychology
Linear perspective
5. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Nativist Theory
Ewald Hering
Sensation
Visual Acuity
6. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Ciliary Muscles
Correct Rejection
Symmetry
3 steps involving sensation
7. 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
Optic Array
Current thinking about sensation and perception
interposition
8. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Frequency
motion parallax
Continuation
Fechner'S Law
9. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Receptor Cells
Optic Chasm
Frequency
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
10. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Lateral Inhibition
Visual Field
Amplitude
Minimum principle
11. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Optic Chasm
Photopigments
Sensation
After light passes through receptors
12. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Perceptual Development
binoculary disparity
Ewald Hering
13. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Sensation
Neural Pathways
Rods
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
14. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Structuralist Theory
Lens
Dark adaptation
15. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
motion parallax
Amplitude
Ponzo Illusion
Prosopagnosia
16. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Visual Field
Cornea
Perceptual Development
17. Located by the cornea
1000hz
Size Constancy
Retina
Lens
18. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
After light passes through receptors
Depth perception
Ciliary Muscles
Robert Frantz
19. 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
Cones
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Optic Chasm
20. 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.
Photopigments
Gestalt Psychology
Visual Cliff
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
21. 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
Purkinje shift
Color constancy
Gestalt Psychology
Nativist Theory
22. humans best hear at
1000hz
Receptive Field
Structuralist Theory
Reception
23. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Terminal Threshold
McCollough Effect
Phi Phenomenon
Perceptual Development
24. 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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25. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
James Gibson
Sensation
Absolute threshold
26. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Continuation
Photopigments
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Impossible Objects
27. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Mental set
Gestalt Psychology
Impossible Objects
Color constancy
28. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Hit
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Retina
29. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Differential Threshold
Receiver operating characteristic
Photopigments
30. We see objects because of the light they reflect
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Structuralist Theory
Vision
Minimum principle
31. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Sensation
Structuralist Theory
After light passes through receptors
Mental set
32. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Figure and ground relationship
apparent size
Inner ear
Amplitude
33. 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.
Minimum principle
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Response Bias
Visual Pathway
34. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Minimum principle
Receptive Field
Gestat Ideas
apparent size
35. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
False alarm
Reception
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Light
36. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Robert Frantz
E.H. Weber
Visual Pathway
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
37. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Outer ear
Gestat Ideas
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Neural Pathways
38. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Impossible Objects
Frequency
Visual Pathway
Hit
39. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
apparent size
McCollough Effect
Autokinetic effect
Ciliary Muscles
40. Failing to detect a present stimulus
interposition
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Miss
Visual Acuity
41. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Reception
Fovea
Retina
Nativist Theory
42. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Receiver operating characteristic
Brightness
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
43. 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
apparent size
Vision
binoculary disparity
Middle ear
44. 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
Cornea
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Middle ear
Phi Phenomenon
45. 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.
Ganglion cells
Differential Threshold
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Light
46. 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.
1000hz
Autokinetic effect
Moon Illusion
Ewald Hering
47. 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.
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Photopigments
Minimum principle
48. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Absolute threshold
Reception
Response Bias
3 steps involving sensation
49. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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50. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Closure
Light
Receiver operating characteristic
Rods