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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation

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1. Has monocular and binocular cues






2. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on






3. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave






4. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays






5. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background






6. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer






7. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible






8. Proposed the opponent color/process theory






9. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz






10. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances






11. 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.






12. Is the inability to recognize faces






13. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle






14. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.






15. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity






16. The physical intensity of light






17. Why do cones see better than rods?






18. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus






19. 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






20. He tendency to group together items that are near each other






21. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen






22. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive






23. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...






24. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there






25. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.






26. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.






27. 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.






28. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance






29. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual






30. 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.






31. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation

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32. 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.






33. 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.






34. Best at seeing fine details






35. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be






36. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light






37. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron






38. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood






39. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images






40. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them






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






42. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear






43. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment






44. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate






45. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.






46. Along the visual pathway is the...






47. We see objects because of the light they reflect






48. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear






49. 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






50. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.