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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. humans best hear at
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Robert Frantz
Continuation
1000hz
2. 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
Pragnanz
Minimum principle
Rods
The visual pathway
3. Is the inability to recognize faces
Perceptual Development
Frequency
Dark adaptation
Prosopagnosia
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
Receptor Cells
Timbre
Visual Acuity
Inner ear
5. 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
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Ciliary Muscles
binoculary disparity
6. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
motion parallax
interposition
Cones
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
7. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Response Bias
Symmetry
The visual pathway
Mental set
8. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Perceptual Development
Depth perception
interposition
Current thinking about sensation and perception
9. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Proximity
Light
Dark adaptation
10. Located by the cornea
Response Bias
Lens
Absolute threshold
Optic Chasm
11. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Visual Field
Gestat Ideas
Correct Rejection
Size Constancy
12. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Lens
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Miss
Fovea
13. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Gestat Ideas
Differential Threshold
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Gestalt Psychology
14. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Ciliary Muscles
Current thinking about sensation and perception
texture gradient
15. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Purkinje shift
Ganglion cells
Optic Array
False alarm
16. Along the visual pathway is the...
Linear perspective
Receptor Cells
Optic Chasm
Middle ear
17. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Response Bias
Light
Correct Rejection
18. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Optic Array
binoculary disparity
Amplitude
texture gradient
19. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
Color constancy
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Weber'S Law
20. How we organize or experience sensations
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Perception
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Current thinking about sensation and perception
21. 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
Visual Cliff
Constancy
Phi Phenomenon
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
22. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Ciliary Muscles
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
23. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Receiver operating characteristic
Fechner'S Law
Ponzo Illusion
24. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Figure and ground relationship
motion parallax
Nativist Theory
Ponzo Illusion
25. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Color constancy
Muller-Lyer Illusion
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Visual Cliff
26. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Correct Rejection
Perception
Gestat Ideas
James Gibson
27. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Receptive Field
Mental set
Middle ear
Neural Pathways
28. 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.
Gestalt Psychology
Correct Rejection
Color constancy
Differential Threshold
29. 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
Autokinetic effect
Minimum principle
Symmetry
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
30. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Hit
Ponzo Illusion
Vision
Rods
31. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Miss
Hit
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
After light passes through receptors
32. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Photopigments
Frequency
Inner ear
33. 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.
interposition
Perceptual Development
Moon Illusion
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
34. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
E.H. Weber
Visual Cliff
Size Constancy
Receptor Cells
35. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Outer ear
After light passes through receptors
Brightness
Receiver operating characteristic
36. 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
Receiver operating characteristic
motion parallax
Terminal Threshold
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
37. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Photopigments
Gestat Ideas
Pragnanz
38. 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.
False alarm
Constancy
Proximity
Hue
39. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Robert Frantz
Cones
Color constancy
James Gibson
40. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
McCollough Effect
Closure
Gestalt Psychology
Optic Chasm
41. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Absolute threshold
Ponzo Illusion
After light passes through receptors
Perception
42. 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
43. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Ganglion cells
Correct Rejection
Reception
Linear perspective
44. Has monocular and binocular cues
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Color constancy
Cornea
Depth perception
45. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Absolute threshold
Sensation
Inner ear
1000hz
46. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
False alarm
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Optic Chasm
Hue
47. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Absolute threshold
The visual pathway
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
48. 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.
Gestalt Psychology
motion parallax
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Symmetry
49. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Light
Constancy
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
50. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Size Constancy
Receiver operating characteristic
Receptor Cells