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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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
Correct Rejection
Moon Illusion
binoculary disparity
Depth perception
2. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Minimum principle
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Optic Chasm
Fovea
3. 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
Robert Frantz
Visual Field
Receiver operating characteristic
4. 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.
interposition
Ponzo Illusion
Gestalt Psychology
Response Bias
5. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Size Constancy
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Vision
Impossible Objects
6. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Color constancy
Nativist Theory
McCollough Effect
Proximity
7. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Amplitude
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Impossible Objects
Ewald Hering
8. 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.
Constancy
Ganglion cells
Moon Illusion
Weber'S Law
9. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Moon Illusion
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Correct Rejection
1000hz
10. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Response Bias
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Robert Frantz
Fovea
11. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Ponzo Illusion
Vision
Closure
Depth perception
12. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Rods
Size Constancy
Symmetry
13. The optic nerve is made up of...
Outer ear
Ganglion cells
Ciliary Muscles
Retina
14. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Optic Chasm
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Proximity
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
15. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Cones
Vision
Robert Frantz
Linear perspective
16. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Visual Pathway
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Receiver operating characteristic
17. 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
McCollough Effect
texture gradient
Cones
Vision
18. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Optic Array
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Absolute threshold
Gestalt Psychology
19. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Visual Field
The visual pathway
Continuation
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
20. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Depth perception
1000hz
Retina
Mental set
21. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Lens
Visual Field
Phi Phenomenon
Ciliary Muscles
22. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Perceptual Development
Hit
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Perception
23. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Nativist Theory
James Gibson
Receiver operating characteristic
Size Constancy
24. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Neural Pathways
Continuation
Retina
Moon Illusion
25. humans best hear at
Purkinje shift
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
1000hz
Structuralist Theory
26. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Color constancy
1000hz
27. 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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28. 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.
Moon Illusion
Lateral Inhibition
Amplitude
Nativist Theory
29. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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30. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Visual Field
McCollough Effect
Cones
1000hz
31. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Closure
Perception
Lens
Ewald Hering
32. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Autokinetic effect
Perceptual Development
Receptive Field
Inner ear
33. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Middle ear
Optic Chasm
Constancy
Minimum principle
34. 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.
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Rods
Perceptual Development
Hit
35. Located by the cornea
McCollough Effect
Lens
Photopigments
After light passes through receptors
36. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Light
Perception
Amplitude
Neural Pathways
37. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Retina
Miss
Structuralist Theory
Dark adaptation
38. 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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39. The physical intensity of light
Depth perception
Brightness
Absolute threshold
Ganglion cells
40. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Receiver operating characteristic
Visual Pathway
Hit
41. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
James Gibson
interposition
Light
apparent size
42. Best at seeing fine details
The visual pathway
Depth perception
Visual Acuity
Structuralist Theory
43. 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
Ewald Hering
Purkinje shift
Color constancy
Figure and ground relationship
44. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
False alarm
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Linear perspective
interposition
45. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
James Gibson
Fovea
Weber'S Law
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
46. 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.
Terminal Threshold
Prosopagnosia
Gestalt Psychology
Differential Threshold
47. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Vision
Color constancy
Visual Cliff
Proximity
48. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
James Gibson
Retina
Impossible Objects
Ciliary Muscles
49. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Hue
Weber'S Law
Ponzo Illusion
Constancy
50. Is the inability to recognize faces
Constancy
Gestat Ideas
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Prosopagnosia