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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Vision
Dark adaptation
2. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
3 steps involving sensation
Absolute threshold
Ganglion cells
Visual Field
3. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Vision
Hit
Visual Field
Closure
4. 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
Rods
Color constancy
E.H. Weber
Autokinetic effect
5. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Dark adaptation
3 steps involving sensation
Cones
Neural Pathways
6. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Visual Pathway
Optic Chasm
Photopigments
The visual pathway
7. 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
Autokinetic effect
Inner ear
Reception
apparent size
8. 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)
Fechner'S Law
Optic Array
Size Constancy
9. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Ciliary Muscles
Receptor Cells
Differential Threshold
Prosopagnosia
10. 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
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Prosopagnosia
Purkinje shift
Minimum principle
11. 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
The visual pathway
Autokinetic effect
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Frequency
12. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Ponzo Illusion
Vision
Impossible Objects
Mental set
13. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Figure and ground relationship
Light
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Gestat Ideas
14. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Optic Chasm
apparent size
Frequency
interposition
15. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
Figure and ground relationship
Perception
Nativist Theory
16. Is the inability to recognize faces
Optic Array
Neural Pathways
Size Constancy
Prosopagnosia
17. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Optic Chasm
Neural Pathways
Closure
Hermann Von Hemholtz
18. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Differential Threshold
Neural Pathways
Perceptual Development
Optic Array
19. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Gestalt Psychology
Fovea
Robert Frantz
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
20. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Visual Pathway
Brightness
Purkinje shift
Photopigments
21. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Impossible Objects
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
22. Why do cones see better than rods?
Nativist Theory
Receptor Cells
Retina
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
23. humans best hear at
1000hz
Ewald Hering
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Ciliary Muscles
24. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Constancy
Light
Response Bias
25. Located by the cornea
Lens
Ewald Hering
Perceptual Development
Minimum principle
26. 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
texture gradient
apparent size
McCollough Effect
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
27. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Receiver operating characteristic
E.H. Weber
Prosopagnosia
Fechner'S Law
28. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Response Bias
Perception
Reception
Optic Chasm
29. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
apparent size
Absolute threshold
Perceptual Development
Phi Phenomenon
30. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
The visual pathway
McCollough Effect
Fechner'S Law
31. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Phi Phenomenon
1000hz
False alarm
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
32. 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.
texture gradient
Miss
motion parallax
Constancy
33. How we organize or experience sensations
Visual Pathway
Perception
Rods
Optic Chasm
34. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Cornea
apparent size
Receptor Cells
Sensation
35. 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.
Constancy
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
interposition
Ponzo Illusion
36. The tendency to perceive a smooth motion. This explains why motion is perceived when there is none - often by the use of flashing lights or rapidly shown still-fram pictures - such as in the perception of cartoons. This is apparent motion
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Linear perspective
Optic Chasm
Phi Phenomenon
37. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Miss
Visual Pathway
Receiver operating characteristic
The visual pathway
38. 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
Receptor Cells
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Mental set
39. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Vision
Gestat Ideas
Autokinetic effect
The visual pathway
40. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Receiver operating characteristic
Proximity
Ponzo Illusion
Response Bias
41. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Gestat Ideas
Hit
Ganglion cells
Proximity
42. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Timbre
Receptor Cells
Ewald Hering
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
43. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Amplitude
Rods
Prosopagnosia
Receptor Cells
44. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Brightness
James Gibson
After light passes through receptors
45. The physical intensity of light
Constancy
Size Constancy
Brightness
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
46. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Structuralist Theory
Perception
Photopigments
Frequency
47. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
McCollough Effect
Response Bias
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Impossible Objects
48. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Optic Chasm
3 steps involving sensation
Robert Frantz
binoculary disparity
49. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Optic Chasm
McCollough Effect
Outer ear
Proximity
50. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
Dark adaptation
Depth perception
Purkinje shift