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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Photopigments
Optic Chasm
Light
Impossible Objects
2. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Receptive Field
Continuation
Middle ear
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
3. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Proximity
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Optic Chasm
4. Along the visual pathway is the...
Hit
Optic Chasm
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Ciliary Muscles
5. 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
Frequency
Amplitude
Reception
6. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Vision
Rods
Symmetry
Miss
7. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Hue
Mental set
Miss
8. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Lateral Inhibition
Impossible Objects
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Dark adaptation
9. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Frequency
The visual pathway
Ewald Hering
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
10. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Reception
Robert Frantz
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Cones
11. 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
Miss
binoculary disparity
Purkinje shift
Amplitude
12. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Visual Pathway
Fovea
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Hue
13. 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
Autokinetic effect
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Cornea
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
14. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Middle ear
Differential Threshold
texture gradient
Optic Chasm
15. 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.
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Closure
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
16. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
motion parallax
Outer ear
Size Constancy
17. 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.
Moon Illusion
Optic Chasm
3 steps involving sensation
Mental set
18. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Ganglion cells
Receiver operating characteristic
Fechner'S Law
Fovea
19. 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
Sensation
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Mental set
Phi Phenomenon
20. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Visual Pathway
Receptor Cells
Robert Frantz
Lateral Inhibition
21. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Structuralist Theory
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Weber'S Law
Ganglion cells
22. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
After light passes through receptors
Color constancy
Hit
Optic Array
23. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Prosopagnosia
Weber'S Law
Pragnanz
Ganglion cells
24. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Outer ear
Receiver operating characteristic
Visual Cliff
Nativist Theory
25. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Sensation
Photopigments
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Differential Threshold
26. 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.
Symmetry
Retina
Response Bias
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
27. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Structuralist Theory
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Hit
Gestat Ideas
28. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Autokinetic effect
Mental set
Light
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
29. Best at seeing fine details
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Phi Phenomenon
Brightness
Visual Acuity
30. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Optic Array
Frequency
31. 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
Receiver operating characteristic
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
1000hz
Differential Threshold
32. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
McCollough Effect
Hue
Vision
interposition
33. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Absolute threshold
Closure
Structuralist Theory
After light passes through receptors
34. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Color constancy
Timbre
Dark adaptation
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
35. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Visual Pathway
3 steps involving sensation
Proximity
36. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Continuation
Optic Array
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Brightness
37. 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'
Reception
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Visual Cliff
Retina
38. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
E.H. Weber
Linear perspective
Absolute threshold
Optic Array
39. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Linear perspective
Middle ear
interposition
Visual Acuity
40. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Symmetry
Gestalt Psychology
Gestat Ideas
Robert Frantz
41. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
1000hz
Ponzo Illusion
James Gibson
Response Bias
42. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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43. Begins with the tympanic membrane (eardrum) which is stretch across the auditory canal. Behind this membrane are the Ossicles (3 small bones) - the last of which is the stapes. Sound vibrations bump against the tympanic membrane - causing the ossicl
Hit
Middle ear
Timbre
Figure and ground relationship
44. 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
Receptor Cells
interposition
Middle ear
Muller-Lyer Illusion
45. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
After light passes through receptors
Structuralist Theory
Phi Phenomenon
46. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Reception
Receiver operating characteristic
After light passes through receptors
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.
Color constancy
Middle ear
motion parallax
E.H. Weber
48. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Purkinje shift
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Minimum principle
Outer ear
49. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Continuation
Ponzo Illusion
After light passes through receptors
Correct Rejection
50. Located by the cornea
Lens
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
E.H. Weber