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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Visual Cliff
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Fechner'S Law
2. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Frequency
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Perception
Current thinking about sensation and perception
3. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Prosopagnosia
Light
Timbre
4. How movement is perceived though the displacement of objects over time - and how this motion takes place at seemingly different paces for nearby or faraway objects. Ships far away seem to move more slowly than ships moving at the same speed.
motion parallax
Neural Pathways
Hit
Response Bias
5. 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
Middle ear
Visual Cliff
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Outer ear
6. 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
Photopigments
Vision
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Optic Chasm
7. 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.
Vision
Phi Phenomenon
Rods
Optic Chasm
8. humans best hear at
Receptive Field
1000hz
Figure and ground relationship
Miss
9. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Prosopagnosia
Receptor Cells
Miss
Gestat Ideas
10. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Closure
Sensation
apparent size
Weber'S Law
11. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Visual Acuity
Size Constancy
Weber'S Law
Purkinje shift
12. 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
Autokinetic effect
Inner ear
Purkinje shift
Minimum principle
13. Why do cones see better than rods?
Sensation
False alarm
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Ciliary Muscles
14. Failing to detect a present stimulus
3 steps involving sensation
Miss
Mental set
Figure and ground relationship
15. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Minimum principle
Ciliary Muscles
Light
16. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Timbre
interposition
Receptive Field
Constancy
17. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Autokinetic effect
Visual Pathway
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Robert Frantz
18. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
apparent size
Perceptual Development
Minimum principle
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
19. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Visual Acuity
Optic Array
Response Bias
20. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
apparent size
Gestalt Psychology
Proximity
Robert Frantz
21. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Absolute threshold
Dark adaptation
motion parallax
22. 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.
Inner ear
Visual Cliff
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Lateral Inhibition
23. 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
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
False alarm
Symmetry
24. 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
Color constancy
Ewald Hering
binoculary disparity
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
25. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Mental set
interposition
Receptive Field
Continuation
26. 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
E.H. Weber
Impossible Objects
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Gestalt Psychology
27. 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.
Terminal Threshold
Pragnanz
Moon Illusion
Gestalt Psychology
28. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Dark adaptation
Neural Pathways
Cornea
29. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
False alarm
After light passes through receptors
Visual Acuity
Dark adaptation
30. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Photopigments
McCollough Effect
Receiver operating characteristic
31. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Inner ear
Robert Frantz
Hit
Figure and ground relationship
32. Best at seeing fine details
Ciliary Muscles
Visual Acuity
Hermann Von Hemholtz
McCollough Effect
33. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Minimum principle
Prosopagnosia
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
motion parallax
34. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
Color constancy
Reception
Terminal Threshold
35. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Correct Rejection
E.H. Weber
interposition
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
36. 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.
Amplitude
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Photopigments
Differential Threshold
37. 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
Reception
Optic Chasm
Constancy
Phi Phenomenon
38. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Response Bias
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Ciliary Muscles
Constancy
39. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Hit
Constancy
Inner ear
James Gibson
40. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
texture gradient
Perceptual Development
Neural Pathways
41. How we organize or experience sensations
Visual Field
Perception
Visual Acuity
Color constancy
42. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Purkinje shift
Middle ear
Fechner'S Law
43. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Optic Array
Middle ear
Structuralist Theory
Receptor Cells
44. 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
Inner ear
Gestat Ideas
Prosopagnosia
Ciliary Muscles
45. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Receptor Cells
texture gradient
Terminal Threshold
Constancy
46. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Frequency
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Visual Cliff
47. 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
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Gestat Ideas
Rods
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
48. Located by the cornea
Optic Chasm
James Gibson
Amplitude
Lens
49. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Visual Cliff
False alarm
Optic Array
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
50. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Purkinje shift
Sensation
Correct Rejection
Visual Field
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