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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Perceptual Development
Ponzo Illusion
Ciliary Muscles
James Gibson
2. 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.
Inner ear
Optic Chasm
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
3. humans best hear at
1000hz
Vision
Gestalt Psychology
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
4. Located by the cornea
Lens
Retina
Rods
Ponzo Illusion
5. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Color constancy
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Hit
Amplitude
6. Why do cones see better than rods?
Lateral Inhibition
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Sensation
Miss
7. 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
Cones
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Reception
8. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Receptive Field
McCollough Effect
texture gradient
E.H. Weber
9. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Cornea
Robert Frantz
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
motion parallax
10. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
11. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Minimum principle
Proximity
Ponzo Illusion
Visual Field
12. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
The visual pathway
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Gestat Ideas
Inner ear
13. The physical intensity of light
1000hz
Optic Chasm
Brightness
Nativist Theory
14. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Timbre
Amplitude
Impossible Objects
Visual Pathway
15. Failing to detect a present stimulus
binoculary disparity
Miss
Visual Pathway
Vision
16. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
apparent size
Miss
Perceptual Development
Ewald Hering
17. Suggests that subjects detect stimuli not only because they can but also because they want to. TSD factors motivation into the picture.
18. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Gestat Ideas
Timbre
Pragnanz
Vision
19. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Correct Rejection
Perceptual Development
Hit
Sensation
20. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Symmetry
Retina
Amplitude
James Gibson
21. 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
Robert Frantz
Autokinetic effect
Light
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
22. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Visual Acuity
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Robert Frantz
binoculary disparity
23. A theory for color vision. It suggests that two types of color sensitive cells exist: Cones that respond to blue-yellow colors and cones that respond to red-green. When one color of the cone is stimulated - the other is inhibited.
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Minimum principle
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Frequency
24. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Visual Field
McCollough Effect
Hit
Pragnanz
25. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Moon Illusion
Ponzo Illusion
Optic Array
26. 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
False alarm
McCollough Effect
Purkinje shift
Middle ear
27. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
interposition
Miss
Correct Rejection
28. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Gestat Ideas
Correct Rejection
Inner ear
Miss
29. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Impossible Objects
Timbre
Visual Acuity
Optic Array
30. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Neural Pathways
binoculary disparity
Phi Phenomenon
31. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Color constancy
Mental set
32. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Linear perspective
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
1000hz
Structuralist Theory
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
Pragnanz
Ewald Hering
Receptive Field
34. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Response Bias
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Continuation
Size Constancy
35. The moon looks larger when we see it on the horizon than when we see it in the sky. This is because the horizon contains visual cues that make the moon seem more distant than the overhead sky.
After light passes through receptors
Moon Illusion
Constancy
Ponzo Illusion
36. 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
Purkinje shift
Optic Chasm
Rods
motion parallax
37. Along the visual pathway is the...
Linear perspective
Optic Chasm
Receiver operating characteristic
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
38. Has monocular and binocular cues
Hue
Linear perspective
Depth perception
Gestalt Psychology
39. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
E.H. Weber
motion parallax
Hue
Structuralist Theory
40. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Dark adaptation
Visual Field
Nativist Theory
41. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Retina
Optic Array
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Outer ear
42. 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.
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Amplitude
Symmetry
43. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
interposition
Constancy
Size Constancy
Sensation
44. 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.
motion parallax
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Fechner'S Law
Photopigments
45. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Vision
Neural Pathways
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
motion parallax
46. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Structuralist Theory
Autokinetic effect
Continuation
Frequency
47. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Gestat Ideas
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Structuralist Theory
Response Bias
48. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Response Bias
E.H. Weber
Figure and ground relationship
Continuation
49. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Hue
Fechner'S Law
Mental set
50. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Receptor Cells
Inner ear
motion parallax
Impossible Objects