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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Dark adaptation
Robert Frantz
Lens
Timbre
2. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
Visual Cliff
The visual pathway
Vision
3. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Retina
Prosopagnosia
Perception
James Gibson
4. 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
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Ciliary Muscles
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
5. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Closure
Sensation
Visual Cliff
Optic Chasm
6. 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.
Optic Array
After light passes through receptors
Muller-Lyer Illusion
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
7. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
E.H. Weber
Pragnanz
Mental set
Hue
8. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
James Gibson
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Reception
Pragnanz
9. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Minimum principle
Response Bias
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Optic Array
10. 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
E.H. Weber
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Figure and ground relationship
Receptive Field
11. 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
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Inner ear
Figure and ground relationship
12. 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
Fovea
Ponzo Illusion
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Retina
13. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Sensation
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Ganglion cells
Correct Rejection
14. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Impossible Objects
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
texture gradient
Absolute threshold
15. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Hit
Miss
Receiver operating characteristic
Optic Chasm
16. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Absolute threshold
False alarm
Color constancy
Impossible Objects
17. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Rods
Light
Outer ear
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
18. The optic nerve is made up of...
False alarm
Constancy
Perceptual Development
Ganglion cells
19. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Sensation
Visual Field
Perception
Optic Chasm
20. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Linear perspective
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Dark adaptation
texture gradient
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
Miss
3 steps involving sensation
Hermann Von Hemholtz
McCollough Effect
22. 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.
Moon Illusion
interposition
Lateral Inhibition
Terminal Threshold
23. Located by the cornea
Lens
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Correct Rejection
Symmetry
24. 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.
Color constancy
False alarm
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Constancy
25. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
The visual pathway
Absolute threshold
Ciliary Muscles
Symmetry
26. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Visual Acuity
Hit
Cones
Moon Illusion
27. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
3 steps involving sensation
The visual pathway
Purkinje shift
Hit
28. 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'
James Gibson
Cornea
Visual Cliff
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
29. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Fovea
Cones
Middle ear
Hermann Von Hemholtz
30. Best at seeing fine details
3 steps involving sensation
After light passes through receptors
Optic Array
Visual Acuity
31. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Vision
Ewald Hering
Fechner'S Law
Optic Chasm
32. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Correct Rejection
Neural Pathways
Absolute threshold
Optic Chasm
33. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Ciliary Muscles
Correct Rejection
Cones
Mental set
34. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Photopigments
Retina
Size Constancy
Cornea
35. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Perceptual Development
Light
Cones
Amplitude
36. Suggests that subjects detect stimuli not only because they can but also because they want to. TSD factors motivation into the picture.
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37. Why do cones see better than rods?
texture gradient
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Robert Frantz
Purkinje shift
38. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Autokinetic effect
interposition
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Continuation
39. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Receiver operating characteristic
Receptor Cells
Absolute threshold
Structuralist Theory
40. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Receptor Cells
Fovea
Frequency
Gestat Ideas
41. 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
Receptor Cells
James Gibson
binoculary disparity
Muller-Lyer Illusion
42. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Ciliary Muscles
Depth perception
Hit
Receptor Cells
43. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Color constancy
Receptor Cells
Optic Chasm
Gestat Ideas
44. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Receiver operating characteristic
Terminal Threshold
Middle ear
Cornea
45. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Hit
Light
Nativist Theory
46. 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.
Receptive Field
Visual Cliff
motion parallax
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
47. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Linear perspective
Perception
Structuralist Theory
Ganglion cells
48. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
False alarm
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Robert Frantz
Lateral Inhibition
49. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Robert Frantz
Symmetry
Moon Illusion
Visual Pathway
50. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Rods
Ciliary Muscles
Visual Field
Prosopagnosia