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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
3 steps involving sensation
Terminal Threshold
Outer ear
Optic Chasm
2. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Receptive Field
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Differential Threshold
Pragnanz
3. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Ciliary Muscles
Fechner'S Law
Outer ear
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
4. 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
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5. 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.
Response Bias
Moon Illusion
Sensation
Mental set
6. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Figure and ground relationship
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Visual Cliff
Proximity
7. Correctly sensing a stimulus
After light passes through receptors
Phi Phenomenon
Nativist Theory
Hit
8. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Terminal Threshold
Light
texture gradient
Minimum principle
9. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Structuralist Theory
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Constancy
3 steps involving sensation
10. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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11. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Visual Field
Impossible Objects
Proximity
Inner ear
12. 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.
Inner ear
James Gibson
Amplitude
Differential Threshold
13. Best at seeing fine details
Ponzo Illusion
Visual Acuity
Optic Array
Perceptual Development
14. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Constancy
binoculary disparity
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Perceptual Development
15. 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.
Figure and ground relationship
Rods
Lateral Inhibition
motion parallax
16. Proposed the tri-color theory - research shows that the opponent-process theory seems to be at work in the Lateral geniculate body - research shows that the tri-color theory seems to be at work in the Retina
Dark adaptation
False alarm
The visual pathway
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
17. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Impossible Objects
The visual pathway
Purkinje shift
Symmetry
18. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Ponzo Illusion
Response Bias
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Muller-Lyer Illusion
19. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Differential Threshold
Frequency
Hit
Correct Rejection
20. 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.
Ciliary Muscles
Neural Pathways
Receptive Field
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
21. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
After light passes through receptors
Figure and ground relationship
James Gibson
22. Has monocular and binocular cues
Amplitude
Depth perception
Continuation
Optic Array
23. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Ciliary Muscles
Ganglion cells
Color constancy
24. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Terminal Threshold
Visual Acuity
Correct Rejection
Mental set
25. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Fovea
Photopigments
Receptor Cells
Brightness
26. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Gestat Ideas
Constancy
Minimum principle
27. 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.
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Optic Chasm
Photopigments
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
28. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Optic Array
Cones
apparent size
Size Constancy
29. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Phi Phenomenon
Hue
Rods
Optic Array
30. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Lateral Inhibition
Cornea
Size Constancy
31. Along the visual pathway is the...
Receptor Cells
Optic Chasm
Visual Cliff
Inner ear
32. 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'
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Visual Cliff
Differential Threshold
Continuation
33. Located by the cornea
Receptor Cells
False alarm
Hue
Lens
34. Is the inability to recognize faces
Optic Chasm
Prosopagnosia
Inner ear
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
35. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Middle ear
Frequency
Cornea
Depth perception
36. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Sensation
Hue
Response Bias
Receptive Field
37. Suggests that subjects detect stimuli not only because they can but also because they want to. TSD factors motivation into the picture.
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38. 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
interposition
Color constancy
Optic Chasm
39. 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.
James Gibson
Visual Pathway
Optic Chasm
Constancy
40. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ewald Hering
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Timbre
Optic Chasm
41. 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
Light
Outer ear
Ciliary Muscles
42. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Amplitude
The visual pathway
Differential Threshold
Retina
43. 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
Optic Array
Robert Frantz
Middle ear
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
44. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Proximity
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
False alarm
Amplitude
45. 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
Gestat Ideas
Middle ear
binoculary disparity
Ewald Hering
46. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
Prosopagnosia
Minimum principle
Autokinetic effect
47. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
texture gradient
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Amplitude
Light
48. The physical intensity of light
binoculary disparity
Frequency
Visual Field
Brightness
49. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Structuralist Theory
Linear perspective
apparent size
Cornea
50. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Robert Frantz
Optic Array
Linear perspective
motion parallax
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