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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Along the visual pathway is the...
James Gibson
Fovea
interposition
Optic Chasm
2. The physical intensity of light
Brightness
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Phi Phenomenon
Size Constancy
3. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
1000hz
Retina
Perceptual Development
4. 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'
Gestalt Psychology
Constancy
Lens
Visual Cliff
5. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Dark adaptation
Hue
After light passes through receptors
E.H. Weber
6. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Receptive Field
Ciliary Muscles
Closure
Muller-Lyer Illusion
7. 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
Inner ear
Correct Rejection
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Autokinetic effect
8. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Differential Threshold
Fovea
Linear perspective
Optic Chasm
9. 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
Optic Array
Light
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Vision
10. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Depth perception
Continuation
False alarm
11. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
James Gibson
Robert Frantz
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Light
12. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Robert Frantz
Optic Chasm
Correct Rejection
texture gradient
13. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Rods
Lens
Middle ear
3 steps involving sensation
14. 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.
Sensation
Robert Frantz
Lateral Inhibition
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
15. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Cones
16. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
apparent size
Visual Pathway
Hit
Receptive Field
17. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Correct Rejection
Sensation
Cones
18. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Lens
Reception
Structuralist Theory
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
19. 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.
Moon Illusion
Ponzo Illusion
motion parallax
Ciliary Muscles
20. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Symmetry
Rods
Vision
Reception
21. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Proximity
Gestat Ideas
texture gradient
Sensation
22. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Proximity
Optic Array
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Mental set
23. Best at seeing fine details
Reception
Outer ear
Visual Acuity
Figure and ground relationship
24. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Color constancy
Figure and ground relationship
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Optic Chasm
25. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Ciliary Muscles
apparent size
Closure
3 steps involving sensation
26. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Neural Pathways
Response Bias
Linear perspective
Weber'S Law
27. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Absolute threshold
Structuralist Theory
Visual Cliff
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
28. 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
Linear perspective
Rods
Perception
After light passes through receptors
29. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Light
Frequency
Gestalt Psychology
Timbre
30. 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
Receptive Field
Visual Pathway
Moon Illusion
31. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
E.H. Weber
Response Bias
motion parallax
32. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Terminal Threshold
Ewald Hering
Perceptual Development
Timbre
33. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Phi Phenomenon
The visual pathway
Ciliary Muscles
apparent size
34. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
1000hz
Fechner'S Law
Gestat Ideas
Visual Field
35. Has monocular and binocular cues
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Visual Cliff
Depth perception
Figure and ground relationship
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
Closure
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Purkinje shift
Depth perception
37. 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.
Closure
Light
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Differential Threshold
38. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
3 steps involving sensation
Ganglion cells
Cones
Absolute threshold
39. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Mental set
Cones
Inner ear
McCollough Effect
40. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Hue
False alarm
Vision
Impossible Objects
41. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Receptor Cells
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Photopigments
Dark adaptation
42. 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.
Ganglion cells
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
motion parallax
Lateral Inhibition
43. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Brightness
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Dark adaptation
Robert Frantz
44. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Cones
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Gestat Ideas
Hue
45. 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
Sensation
Symmetry
Middle ear
binoculary disparity
46. Is the inability to recognize faces
Ponzo Illusion
Timbre
Prosopagnosia
Symmetry
47. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Minimum principle
Photopigments
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
48. 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.
Rods
Optic Chasm
Lens
Robert Frantz
49. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Visual Pathway
Optic Array
Minimum principle
Color constancy
50. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Middle ear
Fechner'S Law
Size Constancy
motion parallax