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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Located by the cornea
Terminal Threshold
Lens
Closure
Perception
2. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Rods
Inner ear
Absolute threshold
Nativist Theory
3. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Impossible Objects
After light passes through receptors
Light
4. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Photopigments
Hue
The visual pathway
Symmetry
5. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Perception
Minimum principle
Phi Phenomenon
James Gibson
6. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Rods
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Inner ear
Lens
7. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Middle ear
Ciliary Muscles
Cornea
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
8. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Visual Acuity
Visual Cliff
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Visual Field
9. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Structuralist Theory
Pragnanz
Ponzo Illusion
Sensation
10. 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
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Ewald Hering
Receptor Cells
Proximity
11. 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.
Sensation
False alarm
Differential Threshold
Prosopagnosia
12. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
Differential Threshold
Moon Illusion
Weber'S Law
13. 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
Differential Threshold
Phi Phenomenon
Continuation
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
14. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Middle ear
Current thinking about sensation and perception
15. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Neural Pathways
Frequency
Amplitude
Receptor Cells
16. Famous for the theory of color blindness
False alarm
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Sensation
Hermann Von Hemholtz
17. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
After light passes through receptors
Gestat Ideas
Visual Cliff
Minimum principle
18. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
Gestat Ideas
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Hue
19. 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
Size Constancy
Autokinetic effect
Linear perspective
Frequency
20. Along the visual pathway is the...
Receiver operating characteristic
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Optic Chasm
Minimum principle
21. 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
Phi Phenomenon
Perceptual Development
Fovea
Middle ear
22. 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
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Symmetry
Amplitude
Inner ear
23. 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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24. humans best hear at
McCollough Effect
1000hz
Figure and ground relationship
Timbre
25. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Middle ear
Differential Threshold
Frequency
Receiver operating characteristic
26. How we organize or experience sensations
Closure
Minimum principle
Middle ear
Perception
27. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Receptor Cells
Hit
James Gibson
3 steps involving sensation
28. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Perceptual Development
Lens
Amplitude
29. Has monocular and binocular cues
Purkinje shift
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Amplitude
Depth perception
30. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Outer ear
Dark adaptation
motion parallax
Optic Chasm
31. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Linear perspective
Hit
Visual Cliff
Fechner'S Law
32. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Correct Rejection
apparent size
Optic Array
3 steps involving sensation
33. 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
Amplitude
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Impossible Objects
34. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Ewald Hering
Retina
Absolute threshold
Visual Cliff
35. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Miss
Sensation
3 steps involving sensation
Dark adaptation
36. 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
McCollough Effect
James Gibson
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Purkinje shift
37. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Perception
Optic Chasm
Hit
Rods
38. Is the inability to recognize faces
Reception
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Optic Array
Prosopagnosia
39. 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
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Optic Chasm
Frequency
Dark adaptation
40. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Figure and ground relationship
Miss
Terminal Threshold
Color constancy
41. Why do cones see better than rods?
Hue
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
42. 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'
Optic Array
Ewald Hering
Visual Cliff
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
43. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Dark adaptation
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Ganglion cells
Linear perspective
44. 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.
Ewald Hering
motion parallax
Light
Constancy
45. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Receiver operating characteristic
Vision
Differential Threshold
Hue
46. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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47. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Miss
Perceptual Development
Impossible Objects
48. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
Outer ear
Receptive Field
Fovea
49. 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
After light passes through receptors
Fovea
Minimum principle
binoculary disparity
50. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Miss
Visual Cliff
Middle ear
Proximity