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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Optic Array
Vision
Autokinetic effect
Gestat Ideas
2. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Weber'S Law
interposition
Ciliary Muscles
Lateral Inhibition
3. Along the visual pathway is the...
Moon Illusion
Autokinetic effect
apparent size
Optic Chasm
4. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Receiver operating characteristic
Ciliary Muscles
James Gibson
5. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Continuation
1000hz
Moon Illusion
apparent size
6. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Ponzo Illusion
Sensation
Perceptual Development
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
7. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Amplitude
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
binoculary disparity
Timbre
8. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Gestat Ideas
texture gradient
Response Bias
Closure
9. Located by the cornea
binoculary disparity
Amplitude
Lens
The visual pathway
10. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Dark adaptation
Fovea
Ponzo Illusion
Absolute threshold
11. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Cones
interposition
The visual pathway
Dark adaptation
12. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Proximity
Lens
Visual Field
interposition
13. 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
Ponzo Illusion
Receptive Field
Symmetry
Purkinje shift
14. The optic nerve is made up of...
The visual pathway
Ganglion cells
Proximity
apparent size
15. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Neural Pathways
Timbre
1000hz
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
16. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Amplitude
Terminal Threshold
Sensation
17. 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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18. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Impossible Objects
Frequency
The visual pathway
Rods
19. Best at seeing fine details
The visual pathway
Visual Acuity
texture gradient
Retina
20. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Closure
Size Constancy
Timbre
apparent size
21. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Receptive Field
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Light
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
22. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Perception
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Light
Minimum principle
23. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Fovea
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Perceptual Development
Color constancy
24. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Differential Threshold
Reception
1000hz
Color constancy
25. 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
Gestalt Psychology
Autokinetic effect
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Photopigments
26. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Response Bias
Sensation
Optic Chasm
Robert Frantz
27. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Middle ear
Outer ear
Amplitude
28. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Neural Pathways
Outer ear
Response Bias
Linear perspective
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
McCollough Effect
Impossible Objects
Sensation
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
30. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
Moon Illusion
Hit
Hermann Von Hemholtz
31. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Receptive Field
apparent size
Response Bias
Cones
32. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Impossible Objects
Size Constancy
Current thinking about sensation and perception
33. 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
Ciliary Muscles
Moon Illusion
Impossible Objects
Inner ear
34. 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'
Size Constancy
Robert Frantz
Ganglion cells
Visual Cliff
35. humans best hear at
E.H. Weber
1000hz
Middle ear
Prosopagnosia
36. 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.
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
After light passes through receptors
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Color constancy
37. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Photopigments
Phi Phenomenon
Visual Pathway
Optic Array
38. 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.
Visual Pathway
motion parallax
Constancy
Optic Array
39. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Correct Rejection
Terminal Threshold
apparent size
Robert Frantz
40. 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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41. 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.
The visual pathway
Autokinetic effect
Receptor Cells
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
42. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Frequency
Terminal Threshold
Response Bias
Perception
43. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Inner ear
The visual pathway
Absolute threshold
Depth perception
44. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Linear perspective
Optic Chasm
Visual Field
45. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Cornea
Size Constancy
Absolute threshold
Light
46. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Timbre
Frequency
Fechner'S Law
Current thinking about sensation and perception
47. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Autokinetic effect
Visual Field
Continuation
48. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
False alarm
Cornea
Hit
Frequency
49. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Receptor Cells
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Minimum principle
Hit
50. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Visual Pathway
Perceptual Development
interposition
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex