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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Visual Acuity
Differential Threshold
Timbre
2. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
False alarm
The visual pathway
Ganglion cells
Retina
3. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Moon Illusion
Photopigments
Visual Pathway
Correct Rejection
4. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Perceptual Development
1000hz
Reception
Light
5. humans best hear at
Hit
1000hz
McCollough Effect
Receptor Cells
6. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Color constancy
Nativist Theory
interposition
James Gibson
7. 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.
Optic Chasm
motion parallax
Purkinje shift
Frequency
8. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Ganglion cells
Photopigments
Color constancy
Perceptual Development
9. 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
The visual pathway
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Continuation
Retina
10. Located in the back of the eye - receives light images from the lens. It is composed of about 30 million photoreceptor cells and of other cell layers that process information
Pragnanz
Hue
Retina
Gestat Ideas
11. 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
Retina
Vision
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Rods
12. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Color constancy
Perception
texture gradient
Dark adaptation
13. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Constancy
Frequency
Symmetry
Impossible Objects
14. Why do cones see better than rods?
Symmetry
Dark adaptation
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Purkinje shift
15. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Ponzo Illusion
Moon Illusion
Dark adaptation
Perceptual Development
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
McCollough Effect
Visual Cliff
apparent size
Inner ear
17. 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
Frequency
Brightness
Timbre
18. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Ciliary Muscles
Closure
James Gibson
Receiver operating characteristic
19. The physical intensity of light
Miss
motion parallax
Brightness
Ganglion cells
20. 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
Timbre
McCollough Effect
Optic Array
Robert Frantz
21. 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
Lens
Pragnanz
Constancy
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
22. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
Optic Array
binoculary disparity
Absolute threshold
23. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Miss
Figure and ground relationship
Symmetry
motion parallax
24. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Closure
Mental set
1000hz
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
25. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Retina
McCollough Effect
After light passes through receptors
26. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
1000hz
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Linear perspective
Color constancy
27. Has monocular and binocular cues
Optic Chasm
Prosopagnosia
Depth perception
Visual Pathway
28. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Mental set
Optic Chasm
Differential Threshold
Rods
29. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Lens
Current thinking about sensation and perception
1000hz
E.H. Weber
30. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Vision
Constancy
Receptor Cells
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
31. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
James Gibson
Ponzo Illusion
Rods
32. How people perceive objects in the way that they are familiar with them - regardless of changes in the actual retinal image. A book - for example - is perceived as rectangular in shape no matter what angle it is seen from.
Prosopagnosia
Differential Threshold
Constancy
texture gradient
33. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Closure
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Reception
Light
34. 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.
Differential Threshold
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Inner ear
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
35. 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.
Dark adaptation
Figure and ground relationship
Moon Illusion
Lens
36. Best at seeing fine details
Visual Acuity
Amplitude
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
McCollough Effect
37. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Miss
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Gestat Ideas
38. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Photopigments
Frequency
Figure and ground relationship
Sensation
39. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
McCollough Effect
3 steps involving sensation
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Ponzo Illusion
40. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
After light passes through receptors
Receiver operating characteristic
Optic Array
Absolute threshold
41. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
apparent size
Proximity
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Receptor Cells
42. 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
43. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Purkinje shift
The visual pathway
Outer ear
Terminal Threshold
44. The optic nerve is made up of...
Visual Field
Light
Ganglion cells
Receiver operating characteristic
45. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Continuation
Visual Field
Weber'S Law
Mental set
46. Is the inability to recognize faces
motion parallax
Prosopagnosia
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Hit
47. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Prosopagnosia
Minimum principle
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
48. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
James Gibson
Weber'S Law
Cornea
Visual Pathway
49. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
The visual pathway
Receiver operating characteristic
Perception
Fovea
50. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Closure
James Gibson
Ewald Hering
Phi Phenomenon