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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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
Outer ear
Terminal Threshold
Hue
Muller-Lyer Illusion
2. 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
Robert Frantz
apparent size
Constancy
Rods
3. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Ewald Hering
Outer ear
Optic Chasm
Structuralist Theory
4. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Rods
Visual Field
Optic Chasm
5. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Structuralist Theory
Ciliary Muscles
Ponzo Illusion
Dark adaptation
6. 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
Miss
Nativist Theory
Visual Pathway
7. 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
Dark adaptation
binoculary disparity
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Linear perspective
8. Is the inability to recognize faces
McCollough Effect
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Prosopagnosia
9. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
E.H. Weber
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Rods
10. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
binoculary disparity
Timbre
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
11. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
After light passes through receptors
motion parallax
interposition
Optic Array
12. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Purkinje shift
Terminal Threshold
Gestat Ideas
texture gradient
13. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
apparent size
3 steps involving sensation
Color constancy
Receptive Field
14. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Hermann Von Hemholtz
motion parallax
Dark adaptation
15. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Depth perception
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Lateral Inhibition
Prosopagnosia
16. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Prosopagnosia
Ganglion cells
Structuralist Theory
17. 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.
Correct Rejection
Constancy
Brightness
Photopigments
18. 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.
Lateral Inhibition
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Weber'S Law
Cones
19. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Light
1000hz
motion parallax
Visual Field
20. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
Receiver operating characteristic
Miss
Correct Rejection
21. Best at seeing fine details
Structuralist Theory
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
binoculary disparity
Visual Acuity
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
Light
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
McCollough Effect
motion parallax
23. Located by the cornea
Constancy
Response Bias
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Lens
24. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Response Bias
apparent size
Weber'S Law
3 steps involving sensation
25. Famous for the theory of color blindness
texture gradient
Terminal Threshold
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Current thinking about sensation and perception
26. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
texture gradient
False alarm
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Minimum principle
27. Along the visual pathway is the...
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Optic Chasm
Visual Pathway
Robert Frantz
28. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Rods
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Visual Acuity
Continuation
29. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Light
Proximity
Receptive Field
30. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Color constancy
Optic Array
After light passes through receptors
31. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Color constancy
Hue
Ciliary Muscles
Linear perspective
32. 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
Phi Phenomenon
E.H. Weber
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
33. 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
34. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Moon Illusion
Ponzo Illusion
Proximity
apparent size
35. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Optic Array
Middle ear
Optic Chasm
Response Bias
36. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Optic Array
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Light
Closure
37. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Phi Phenomenon
Timbre
Receptive Field
Ganglion cells
38. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ewald Hering
Retina
Impossible Objects
Pragnanz
39. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Light
Inner ear
Fovea
Hermann Von Hemholtz
40. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
binoculary disparity
Robert Frantz
Reception
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
41. 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.
Closure
Cornea
Optic Chasm
Lens
42. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Visual Acuity
Sensation
Symmetry
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
43. How we organize or experience sensations
Visual Pathway
James Gibson
Sensation
Perception
44. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Hue
Visual Field
Cones
Ciliary Muscles
45. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Terminal Threshold
Cornea
Vision
Ewald Hering
46. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Hit
Rods
E.H. Weber
47. 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.
Purkinje shift
Closure
Constancy
motion parallax
48. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Response Bias
Perception
Miss
Terminal Threshold
49. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
E.H. Weber
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Hit
Cones
50. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Nativist Theory
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Terminal Threshold
Perceptual Development