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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Gestalt Psychology
Color constancy
Terminal Threshold
Receptor Cells
2. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Perceptual Development
Visual Pathway
Linear perspective
Gestat Ideas
3. 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
Cornea
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Structuralist Theory
McCollough Effect
4. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
McCollough Effect
interposition
Prosopagnosia
5. humans best hear at
Weber'S Law
Middle ear
The visual pathway
1000hz
6. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Correct Rejection
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Dark adaptation
7. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Hit
Neural Pathways
Ewald Hering
8. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Hue
Cones
Purkinje shift
Ganglion cells
9. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Miss
Retina
Timbre
Absolute threshold
10. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Vision
Inner ear
After light passes through receptors
11. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Brightness
Figure and ground relationship
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Gestalt Psychology
12. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Depth perception
Moon Illusion
Outer ear
13. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Neural Pathways
Fovea
Nativist Theory
Receptive Field
14. Is the inability to recognize faces
Ciliary Muscles
Prosopagnosia
Robert Frantz
Optic Array
15. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Proximity
Pragnanz
The visual pathway
Autokinetic effect
16. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Response Bias
Size Constancy
Fechner'S Law
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
17. 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
3 steps involving sensation
Response Bias
Inner ear
18. 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.
Structuralist Theory
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Current thinking about sensation and perception
19. The physical intensity of light
Brightness
False alarm
Light
Visual Acuity
20. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Differential Threshold
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Figure and ground relationship
Receptive Field
21. 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.
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Robert Frantz
Fovea
Structuralist Theory
22. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
apparent size
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Ganglion cells
Linear perspective
23. 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.
Brightness
Lateral Inhibition
Moon Illusion
Symmetry
24. 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
Visual Acuity
binoculary disparity
Impossible Objects
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
25. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Photopigments
Fovea
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
26. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Lateral Inhibition
Gestalt Psychology
Optic Array
Minimum principle
27. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Receiver operating characteristic
McCollough Effect
apparent size
Sensation
28. 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
29. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Lateral Inhibition
Cones
Size Constancy
Dark adaptation
30. Along the visual pathway is the...
texture gradient
Optic Chasm
McCollough Effect
Nativist Theory
31. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
James Gibson
McCollough Effect
Perceptual Development
Autokinetic effect
32. Has monocular and binocular cues
Color constancy
False alarm
Depth perception
Weber'S Law
33. 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
Color constancy
motion parallax
Muller-Lyer Illusion
34. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Inner ear
Sensation
Frequency
After light passes through receptors
35. 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.
Timbre
Terminal Threshold
Light
Optic Chasm
36. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Closure
Hue
Terminal Threshold
Cones
37. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Dark adaptation
Nativist Theory
Amplitude
Inner ear
38. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Visual Pathway
3 steps involving sensation
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
39. Famous for the theory of color blindness
False alarm
Neural Pathways
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
40. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Proximity
Mental set
Outer ear
Miss
41. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
Sensation
Closure
Optic Array
42. 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
Color constancy
Mental set
Impossible Objects
43. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Pragnanz
Prosopagnosia
False alarm
Visual Cliff
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.
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
motion parallax
Proximity
texture gradient
45. 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.
apparent size
Gestalt Psychology
Constancy
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
46. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Optic Chasm
Correct Rejection
Terminal Threshold
Sensation
47. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Photopigments
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Frequency
Dark adaptation
48. Located by the cornea
Lens
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Proximity
Visual Cliff
49. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Vision
Cones
Impossible Objects
Robert Frantz
50. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
James Gibson
Robert Frantz
Nativist Theory
Inner ear