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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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.
Structuralist Theory
Rods
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
2. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Ewald Hering
Impossible Objects
Mental set
Ciliary Muscles
3. 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
False alarm
Purkinje shift
Closure
Visual Acuity
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'
3 steps involving sensation
Visual Pathway
Visual Cliff
Figure and ground relationship
5. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Prosopagnosia
McCollough Effect
1000hz
Response Bias
6. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Receptive Field
Visual Field
7. Located by the cornea
binoculary disparity
Proximity
Lens
Miss
8. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Cones
Ewald Hering
Light
Prosopagnosia
9. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
James Gibson
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Absolute threshold
10. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Color constancy
Visual Field
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
11. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
motion parallax
Cornea
3 steps involving sensation
1000hz
12. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Receiver operating characteristic
13. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Correct Rejection
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Continuation
Neural Pathways
14. 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
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Inner ear
James Gibson
15. humans best hear at
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
1000hz
Amplitude
McCollough Effect
16. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Figure and ground relationship
Structuralist Theory
3 steps involving sensation
17. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Robert Frantz
Amplitude
texture gradient
Cornea
18. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Receptive Field
Rods
Optic Array
Visual Acuity
19. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Receiver operating characteristic
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Minimum principle
Lens
20. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Cones
Receptive Field
Dark adaptation
21. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Visual Cliff
The visual pathway
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Receptor Cells
22. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Visual Field
Rods
Correct Rejection
23. 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.
Lateral Inhibition
Sensation
interposition
3 steps involving sensation
24. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Visual Acuity
binoculary disparity
Neural Pathways
Dark adaptation
25. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Inner ear
Purkinje shift
Receiver operating characteristic
Hue
26. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
After light passes through receptors
Cornea
Symmetry
Visual Field
27. Has monocular and binocular cues
Timbre
Depth perception
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Ponzo Illusion
28. 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
Middle ear
Lens
Frequency
Muller-Lyer Illusion
29. 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
Hit
Symmetry
Mental set
McCollough Effect
30. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Ewald Hering
Figure and ground relationship
Response Bias
Optic Chasm
31. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Dark adaptation
texture gradient
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Cornea
32. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Reception
texture gradient
Terminal Threshold
Closure
33. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Linear perspective
Vision
Weber'S Law
Muller-Lyer Illusion
34. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
1000hz
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Sensation
Depth perception
35. 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.
Size Constancy
Cornea
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Optic Chasm
36. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Robert Frantz
Proximity
3 steps involving sensation
37. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Gestat Ideas
Retina
After light passes through receptors
1000hz
38. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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39. We see objects because of the light they reflect
1000hz
Vision
Amplitude
Visual Pathway
40. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Closure
Hue
Response Bias
Size Constancy
41. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
3 steps involving sensation
Figure and ground relationship
Optic Chasm
42. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Absolute threshold
Ewald Hering
interposition
Structuralist Theory
43. The optic nerve is made up of...
Visual Acuity
Response Bias
Ganglion cells
Color constancy
44. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Ponzo Illusion
Visual Cliff
Moon Illusion
Light
45. Best at seeing fine details
Differential Threshold
Absolute threshold
Visual Acuity
Perception
46. 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
James Gibson
binoculary disparity
Current thinking about sensation and perception
The visual pathway
47. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Continuation
Outer ear
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Receiver operating characteristic
48. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Depth perception
McCollough Effect
Symmetry
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
49. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
Minimum principle
Hue
Color constancy
50. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Terminal Threshold
Figure and ground relationship
Pragnanz
Inner ear