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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. The physical intensity of light
Brightness
Color constancy
Ewald Hering
Outer ear
2. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
The visual pathway
Minimum principle
Neural Pathways
Correct Rejection
3. Located by the cornea
Lens
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Ciliary Muscles
interposition
4. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Cones
motion parallax
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Outer ear
5. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
apparent size
Visual Acuity
Frequency
binoculary disparity
6. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Photopigments
Inner ear
Brightness
Pragnanz
7. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Dark adaptation
Perceptual Development
Optic Chasm
Photopigments
8. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
James Gibson
Proximity
Size Constancy
Phi Phenomenon
9. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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10. 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.
Figure and ground relationship
Inner ear
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Color constancy
11. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Perceptual Development
Reception
Miss
Visual Pathway
12. Along the visual pathway is the...
Nativist Theory
Middle ear
The visual pathway
Optic Chasm
13. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Timbre
Inner ear
Proximity
Hermann Von Hemholtz
14. 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.
Absolute threshold
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Differential Threshold
Optic Chasm
15. 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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16. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Amplitude
Ponzo Illusion
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Ganglion cells
17. 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.
McCollough Effect
motion parallax
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
James Gibson
18. Is the inability to recognize faces
Phi Phenomenon
Pragnanz
Prosopagnosia
Impossible Objects
19. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
apparent size
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
binoculary disparity
E.H. Weber
20. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Cornea
texture gradient
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
21. Best at seeing fine details
Visual Acuity
Color constancy
3 steps involving sensation
Figure and ground relationship
22. 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
McCollough Effect
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Figure and ground relationship
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
23. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Continuation
Receptive Field
The visual pathway
Rods
24. 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
Sensation
Hit
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
25. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Ewald Hering
Gestalt Psychology
Retina
Cornea
26. The optic nerve is made up of...
motion parallax
Ganglion cells
Figure and ground relationship
Impossible Objects
27. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Linear perspective
Lens
binoculary disparity
28. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Frequency
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Fovea
Color constancy
29. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Sensation
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Dark adaptation
30. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Closure
Visual Pathway
interposition
31. 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
Dark adaptation
Lens
Fovea
32. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Mental set
Miss
Color constancy
1000hz
33. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Light
Lens
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Fovea
34. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Symmetry
apparent size
Gestat Ideas
Miss
35. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Nativist Theory
Phi Phenomenon
James Gibson
Miss
36. 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
binoculary disparity
Autokinetic effect
Lateral Inhibition
Cornea
37. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Outer ear
Response Bias
Hermann Von Hemholtz
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
38. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Visual Field
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Dark adaptation
Figure and ground relationship
39. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Depth perception
E.H. Weber
Terminal Threshold
40. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
3 steps involving sensation
Reception
Response Bias
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
41. 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
binoculary disparity
Figure and ground relationship
Rods
The visual pathway
42. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Photopigments
Sensation
Symmetry
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
43. 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.
Impossible Objects
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Minimum principle
Optic Chasm
44. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Sensation
Pragnanz
Impossible Objects
Lens
45. 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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46. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Mental set
Ciliary Muscles
Outer ear
Vision
47. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
The visual pathway
Phi Phenomenon
Lens
48. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Absolute threshold
Cornea
Response Bias
Optic Chasm
49. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Frequency
Fovea
Optic Chasm
After light passes through receptors
50. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Optic Chasm
False alarm
motion parallax
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