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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Gestalt Psychology
Pragnanz
Rods
Fechner'S Law
2. Located by the cornea
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Visual Acuity
Lens
Optic Chasm
3. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Lens
Neural Pathways
Continuation
Visual Acuity
4. Correctly sensing a stimulus
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Lens
Neural Pathways
Hit
5. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Cones
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Structuralist Theory
6. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Amplitude
Receptor Cells
Fechner'S Law
Terminal Threshold
7. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Brightness
After light passes through receptors
Dark adaptation
Mental set
8. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ewald Hering
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Ganglion cells
9. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Dark adaptation
Mental set
Visual Cliff
Hermann Von Hemholtz
10. 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.
Constancy
Timbre
Perception
Sensation
11. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Gestat Ideas
texture gradient
Sensation
Robert Frantz
12. Along the visual pathway is the...
E.H. Weber
Hue
Optic Chasm
Response Bias
13. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Light
McCollough Effect
Miss
Sensation
14. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Prosopagnosia
Size Constancy
McCollough Effect
15. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Brightness
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Sensation
Closure
16. How we organize or experience sensations
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Pragnanz
Perception
Ewald Hering
17. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Depth perception
Absolute threshold
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
James Gibson
18. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Receiver operating characteristic
Perceptual Development
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
19. 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
Neural Pathways
Structuralist Theory
Rods
Ciliary Muscles
20. 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
Proximity
Weber'S Law
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Retina
21. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
The visual pathway
Impossible Objects
texture gradient
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
22. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Minimum principle
texture gradient
After light passes through receptors
Fechner'S Law
23. humans best hear at
Sensation
Visual Acuity
Figure and ground relationship
1000hz
24. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Hit
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Vision
25. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Receptive Field
Visual Pathway
1000hz
Terminal Threshold
26. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Miss
Nativist Theory
Structuralist Theory
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
27. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Perceptual Development
Receptive Field
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Lateral Inhibition
28. 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.
False alarm
Moon Illusion
Optic Chasm
Brightness
29. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Absolute threshold
texture gradient
Photopigments
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
30. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Lens
Light
31. 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
Middle ear
Robert Frantz
Correct Rejection
Miss
32. 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
Terminal Threshold
The visual pathway
Optic Array
33. Why do cones see better than rods?
Outer ear
Minimum principle
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Neural Pathways
34. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Nativist Theory
Timbre
Moon Illusion
Symmetry
35. 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
Receiver operating characteristic
Constancy
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
36. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Robert Frantz
Inner ear
Ponzo Illusion
Gestat Ideas
37. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Size Constancy
Timbre
38. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
Visual Pathway
Autokinetic effect
Current thinking about sensation and perception
39. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Weber'S Law
texture gradient
Mental set
Correct Rejection
40. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Prosopagnosia
Perception
Mental set
interposition
41. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
E.H. Weber
Visual Field
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Autokinetic effect
42. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Lens
Rods
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
43. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
44. 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'
McCollough Effect
Size Constancy
Moon Illusion
Visual Cliff
45. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Optic Chasm
False alarm
Photopigments
Lens
46. 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
47. 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
Impossible Objects
McCollough Effect
Receptor Cells
Structuralist Theory
48. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Ewald Hering
Cornea
Optic Chasm
Visual Field
49. 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.
Dark adaptation
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Reception
Size Constancy
50. 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.
Differential Threshold
Fovea
McCollough Effect
Structuralist Theory