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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation

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1. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.






2. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them






3. 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






4. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.






5. 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






6. Correctly sensing a stimulus






7. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood






8. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle






9. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses






10. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear






11. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...






12. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways






13. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.






14. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background






15. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave






16. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.






17. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen






18. How we organize or experience sensations






19. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible






20. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances






21. Is the inability to recognize faces






22. humans best hear at






23. We see objects because of the light they reflect






24. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.






25. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity






26. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures






27. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light






28. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.






29. 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.






30. The physical intensity of light






31. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array






32. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.






33. 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






34. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz






35. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation

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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.






37. He tendency to group together items that are near each other






38. 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






39. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths






40. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing






41. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.






42. Famous for the theory of color blindness






43. 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






44. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there






45. 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.






46. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.






47. 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.






48. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment






49. Has monocular and binocular cues






50. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina