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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Dark adaptation
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Cornea
2. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ewald Hering
Terminal Threshold
Miss
texture gradient
3. 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.
Ganglion cells
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Linear perspective
Impossible Objects
4. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Hit
Ganglion cells
Receptive Field
The visual pathway
5. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Miss
Purkinje shift
1000hz
Ciliary Muscles
6. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Nativist Theory
Continuation
Robert Frantz
Hit
7. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Symmetry
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
False alarm
8. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Perception
Continuation
Differential Threshold
9. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
interposition
Symmetry
Receiver operating characteristic
Timbre
10. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Hit
Vision
Lens
Ponzo Illusion
11. 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.
Symmetry
Lateral Inhibition
Constancy
Receptive Field
12. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Dark adaptation
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Autokinetic effect
Hit
13. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
texture gradient
Ciliary Muscles
Size Constancy
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
14. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Receptive Field
Reception
Impossible Objects
Ciliary Muscles
15. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
After light passes through receptors
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Gestat Ideas
16. 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
Fovea
Continuation
Inner ear
Structuralist Theory
17. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Moon Illusion
Proximity
Nativist Theory
E.H. Weber
18. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
binoculary disparity
3 steps involving sensation
James Gibson
Response Bias
19. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Sensation
Neural Pathways
The visual pathway
20. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Gestat Ideas
Optic Chasm
Dark adaptation
Closure
21. 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
Ciliary Muscles
Photopigments
binoculary disparity
Size Constancy
22. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
False alarm
Timbre
23. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Mental set
Brightness
Rods
Terminal Threshold
24. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Linear perspective
Size Constancy
Receptor Cells
Continuation
25. 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
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Muller-Lyer Illusion
binoculary disparity
Response Bias
26. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Rods
The visual pathway
binoculary disparity
Visual Field
27. The physical intensity of light
Cones
Phi Phenomenon
Amplitude
Brightness
28. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Vision
Perceptual Development
Nativist Theory
1000hz
29. Located by the cornea
Fovea
Lens
Figure and ground relationship
Frequency
30. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Perceptual Development
Depth perception
Miss
Vision
31. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Receptive Field
Perceptual Development
Perception
Cones
32. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Retina
Optic Array
Light
Dark adaptation
33. 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
Phi Phenomenon
Middle ear
Nativist Theory
False alarm
34. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Receiver operating characteristic
Brightness
Receptor Cells
35. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Dark adaptation
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Hermann Von Hemholtz
36. 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.
Dark adaptation
Timbre
Optic Chasm
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
37. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Sensation
Gestalt Psychology
Timbre
38. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
After light passes through receptors
interposition
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Proximity
39. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Receiver operating characteristic
Closure
Ciliary Muscles
40. 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.
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
motion parallax
apparent size
Ganglion cells
41. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Continuation
Reception
Receptor Cells
Pragnanz
42. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Color constancy
Receptor Cells
Symmetry
Moon Illusion
43. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Symmetry
The visual pathway
Structuralist Theory
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
44. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Minimum principle
Ewald Hering
Retina
45. Best at seeing fine details
Mental set
Figure and ground relationship
Visual Acuity
Lateral Inhibition
46. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Pragnanz
Optic Array
James Gibson
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
47. 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.
Gestalt Psychology
Optic Chasm
Brightness
Ewald Hering
48. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Sensation
Ewald Hering
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
49. 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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50. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Constancy
Outer ear
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
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