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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Outer ear
Receptive Field
apparent size
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
2. 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.
Proximity
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
After light passes through receptors
Gestalt Psychology
3. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Receptive Field
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Visual Field
4. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Minimum principle
Visual Cliff
Color constancy
Prosopagnosia
5. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Mental set
Perceptual Development
Impossible Objects
Sensation
6. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Symmetry
Reception
E.H. Weber
Perceptual Development
7. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Linear perspective
8. 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'
interposition
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Visual Cliff
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
9. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Differential Threshold
Frequency
Gestalt Psychology
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
10. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Hue
Proximity
Outer ear
Nativist Theory
11. 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
binoculary disparity
Inner ear
Middle ear
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
12. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Outer ear
Figure and ground relationship
Terminal Threshold
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
13. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Receptor Cells
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Response Bias
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
14. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Response Bias
Impossible Objects
Continuation
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
15. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Terminal Threshold
Figure and ground relationship
interposition
Visual Pathway
16. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Sensation
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Perceptual Development
Miss
17. Located by the cornea
Lens
3 steps involving sensation
Hit
Optic Array
18. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Color constancy
After light passes through receptors
James Gibson
19. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Mental set
Impossible Objects
Outer ear
Gestat Ideas
20. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Minimum principle
Fovea
Muller-Lyer Illusion
After light passes through receptors
21. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Ponzo Illusion
Ganglion cells
motion parallax
Rods
22. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Frequency
Ewald Hering
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
23. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Continuation
Receptor Cells
Size Constancy
Neural Pathways
24. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Receiver operating characteristic
Optic Chasm
Perception
Proximity
25. 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.
binoculary disparity
Prosopagnosia
Ponzo Illusion
Optic Chasm
26. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Visual Cliff
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Cones
Depth perception
27. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Rods
After light passes through receptors
Correct Rejection
Nativist Theory
28. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Prosopagnosia
Proximity
Optic Array
Weber'S Law
29. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
3 steps involving sensation
Proximity
Closure
30. 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.
Fechner'S Law
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Ewald Hering
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
31. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Structuralist Theory
binoculary disparity
Absolute threshold
Linear perspective
32. 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.
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Receiver operating characteristic
Differential Threshold
McCollough Effect
33. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Optic Array
The visual pathway
Visual Cliff
34. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Visual Pathway
Amplitude
James Gibson
Hermann Von Hemholtz
35. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
E.H. Weber
Nativist Theory
36. 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
binoculary disparity
Visual Cliff
Proximity
37. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Gestalt Psychology
Neural Pathways
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
interposition
38. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Miss
Retina
James Gibson
Dark adaptation
39. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Photopigments
Visual Acuity
Autokinetic effect
40. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Vision
Robert Frantz
Cones
41. 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
Prosopagnosia
False alarm
Closure
McCollough Effect
42. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Response Bias
James Gibson
Depth perception
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
43. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Light
Ewald Hering
texture gradient
Timbre
44. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Mental set
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Optic Array
Visual Cliff
45. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Visual Acuity
Prosopagnosia
Photopigments
Light
46. humans best hear at
Terminal Threshold
Vision
1000hz
Phi Phenomenon
47. 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
Ganglion cells
Rods
Phi Phenomenon
Perceptual Development
48. 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
Phi Phenomenon
1000hz
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Timbre
49. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Gestalt Psychology
Closure
Vision
Timbre
50. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Rods
Ciliary Muscles
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Symmetry