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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Figure and ground relationship
Vision
Receiver operating characteristic
Depth perception
2. Is the inability to recognize faces
Ponzo Illusion
Prosopagnosia
After light passes through receptors
Constancy
3. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Symmetry
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Size Constancy
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
4. humans best hear at
Optic Chasm
Depth perception
1000hz
Continuation
5. 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.
Response Bias
Minimum principle
Lateral Inhibition
Visual Pathway
6. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
The visual pathway
Amplitude
Terminal Threshold
Response Bias
7. Along the visual pathway is the...
Impossible Objects
Lens
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Optic Chasm
8. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Optic Chasm
Perceptual Development
Receptive Field
Size Constancy
9. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Dark adaptation
Perceptual Development
Middle ear
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
10. The optic nerve is made up of...
Size Constancy
Ganglion cells
Frequency
False alarm
11. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Ganglion cells
Continuation
Visual Field
interposition
12. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Constancy
Receiver operating characteristic
Closure
Minimum principle
13. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Dark adaptation
Ciliary Muscles
Visual Field
Proximity
14. Why do cones see better than rods?
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Sensation
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
15. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Receptive Field
Ganglion cells
Impossible Objects
16. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Structuralist Theory
Figure and ground relationship
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Brightness
17. Has monocular and binocular cues
Lateral Inhibition
Depth perception
Hue
Sensation
18. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Figure and ground relationship
Amplitude
apparent size
Inner ear
19. 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
Symmetry
Autokinetic effect
Purkinje shift
Ganglion cells
20. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Ponzo Illusion
Reception
Robert Frantz
Vision
21. 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
Perceptual Development
binoculary disparity
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
McCollough Effect
22. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Ewald Hering
Impossible Objects
Ciliary Muscles
Correct Rejection
23. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Optic Array
binoculary disparity
Neural Pathways
Sensation
24. 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'
Fovea
Visual Cliff
Proximity
E.H. Weber
25. 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.
Color constancy
Symmetry
binoculary disparity
motion parallax
26. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Terminal Threshold
Correct Rejection
Optic Array
Mental set
27. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Robert Frantz
Ponzo Illusion
Dark adaptation
Visual Pathway
28. 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.
Size Constancy
binoculary disparity
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Mental set
29. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Brightness
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Robert Frantz
Purkinje shift
30. 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.
Size Constancy
Symmetry
Receiver operating characteristic
Moon Illusion
31. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Optic Array
Outer ear
After light passes through receptors
Structuralist Theory
32. 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.
Cones
Depth perception
Lens
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
33. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Autokinetic effect
Ciliary Muscles
Fovea
The visual pathway
34. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
James Gibson
Differential Threshold
Visual Acuity
Optic Chasm
35. 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
Vision
binoculary disparity
Inner ear
Dark adaptation
36. How we organize or experience sensations
binoculary disparity
Outer ear
Perception
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
37. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Visual Field
Frequency
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Pragnanz
38. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Sensation
Miss
Optic Chasm
texture gradient
39. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
3 steps involving sensation
Color constancy
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
40. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Retina
Cones
E.H. Weber
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
41. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Visual Acuity
texture gradient
Depth perception
Nativist Theory
42. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Response Bias
Robert Frantz
Autokinetic effect
Optic Array
43. Best at seeing fine details
Hue
Visual Acuity
Cornea
Fovea
44. 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.
Perception
Correct Rejection
Purkinje shift
Gestalt Psychology
45. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Visual Field
Dark adaptation
Photopigments
texture gradient
46. 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
Frequency
Cornea
Pragnanz
47. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Visual Acuity
interposition
Amplitude
Outer ear
48. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Ciliary Muscles
Rods
Ewald Hering
Reception
49. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Hue
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Visual Pathway
50. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Pragnanz
Figure and ground relationship
Symmetry
Hue