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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Purkinje shift
Cones
Receptor Cells
interposition
2. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Lens
Gestat Ideas
Prosopagnosia
apparent size
3. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Perceptual Development
Hit
Cones
Rods
4. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Optic Array
Visual Field
Impossible Objects
McCollough Effect
5. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Outer ear
Retina
6. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Vision
Depth perception
Visual Field
Continuation
7. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Reception
motion parallax
Sensation
Lateral Inhibition
8. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
Closure
Proximity
E.H. Weber
9. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
James Gibson
After light passes through receptors
Visual Cliff
Perceptual Development
10. Located by the cornea
Lens
Ciliary Muscles
Miss
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
11. 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.
Sensation
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Timbre
Gestalt Psychology
12. 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
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Cones
McCollough Effect
Middle ear
13. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Vision
Structuralist Theory
Dark adaptation
Nativist Theory
14. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
Receiver operating characteristic
Moon Illusion
Response Bias
15. 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
Retina
Cornea
Ponzo Illusion
Rods
16. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
Miss
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Perceptual Development
17. 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
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Cones
Ponzo Illusion
18. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Hue
Symmetry
Lens
Structuralist Theory
19. 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.
Depth perception
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Optic Chasm
Receiver operating characteristic
20. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Ponzo Illusion
Amplitude
Frequency
Vision
21. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Depth perception
Ponzo Illusion
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
22. 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
Ganglion cells
Visual Cliff
Middle ear
Visual Acuity
23. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Constancy
Receiver operating characteristic
Robert Frantz
E.H. Weber
24. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Visual Pathway
Figure and ground relationship
Structuralist Theory
Lens
25. 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
E.H. Weber
Constancy
Fechner'S Law
26. 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
Outer ear
interposition
apparent size
Phi Phenomenon
27. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Minimum principle
Constancy
28. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Cornea
Structuralist Theory
Amplitude
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
29. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
texture gradient
Frequency
Closure
Symmetry
30. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Lateral Inhibition
Autokinetic effect
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
31. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Ewald Hering
interposition
Correct Rejection
Linear perspective
32. 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
Autokinetic effect
Amplitude
Size Constancy
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
33. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Figure and ground relationship
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Dark adaptation
34. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Amplitude
Hue
Visual Field
Color constancy
35. Suggests that subjects detect stimuli not only because they can but also because they want to. TSD factors motivation into the picture.
36. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Absolute threshold
Response Bias
Outer ear
Ciliary Muscles
37. 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'
Purkinje shift
Visual Cliff
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Lens
38. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Proximity
E.H. Weber
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Current thinking about sensation and perception
39. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
The visual pathway
Photopigments
40. humans best hear at
Sensation
1000hz
Optic Chasm
Visual Pathway
41. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Terminal Threshold
Frequency
Reception
Proximity
42. 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
Fovea
Ewald Hering
Inner ear
Figure and ground relationship
43. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Rods
The visual pathway
Ewald Hering
44. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Size Constancy
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Gestalt Psychology
Perceptual Development
45. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Gestalt Psychology
Rods
Correct Rejection
Gestat Ideas
46. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
47. 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
Receiver operating characteristic
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
48. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Closure
Correct Rejection
Proximity
Miss
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
Pragnanz
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Visual Acuity
Retina
50. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
motion parallax
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Robert Frantz
Current thinking about sensation and perception