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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Mental set
James Gibson
binoculary disparity
Reception
2. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Response Bias
Ewald Hering
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
3. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Proximity
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
E.H. Weber
4. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Differential Threshold
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
3 steps involving sensation
Cornea
5. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Amplitude
Inner ear
motion parallax
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
6. 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
Retina
Response Bias
Visual Pathway
Correct Rejection
7. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
texture gradient
Structuralist Theory
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Perceptual Development
8. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Receiver operating characteristic
Ponzo Illusion
texture gradient
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
9. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
After light passes through receptors
Photopigments
Rods
Mental set
10. 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
Light
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Size Constancy
Autokinetic effect
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
Inner ear
Optic Chasm
Proximity
Absolute threshold
12. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Robert Frantz
Correct Rejection
Middle ear
Vision
13. humans best hear at
Visual Field
1000hz
Retina
Ponzo Illusion
14. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Light
Optic Chasm
Receptor Cells
15. Why do cones see better than rods?
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Retina
Neural Pathways
Ganglion cells
16. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Receptive Field
Linear perspective
Miss
Sensation
17. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Autokinetic effect
Differential Threshold
Mental set
Constancy
18. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Photopigments
Hit
Linear perspective
Perceptual Development
19. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Nativist Theory
Visual Field
After light passes through receptors
Middle ear
20. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Ciliary Muscles
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Reception
Nativist Theory
21. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Receptive Field
Visual Field
Ciliary Muscles
Hit
22. 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
Figure and ground relationship
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Robert Frantz
Middle ear
23. The physical intensity of light
Cones
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Brightness
After light passes through receptors
24. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Symmetry
Ponzo Illusion
Rods
Visual Acuity
25. 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
Color constancy
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Depth perception
26. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Cones
Structuralist Theory
apparent size
Closure
27. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
motion parallax
Correct Rejection
Ponzo Illusion
28. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Hit
Ewald Hering
Symmetry
29. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
False alarm
Ciliary Muscles
Optic Chasm
Correct Rejection
30. 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.
Visual Pathway
Cones
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Symmetry
31. Correctly sensing a stimulus
binoculary disparity
Constancy
Hit
Impossible Objects
32. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
E.H. Weber
Visual Field
Closure
Reception
33. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Absolute threshold
Visual Field
Fovea
Lateral Inhibition
34. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Response Bias
Hue
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Gestat Ideas
35. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
motion parallax
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Robert Frantz
Retina
36. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Continuation
Optic Array
James Gibson
3 steps involving sensation
37. 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
binoculary disparity
Sensation
Ewald Hering
Photopigments
38. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
Depth perception
Linear perspective
Retina
39. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Moon Illusion
Color constancy
Hit
texture gradient
40. 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.
Visual Acuity
Lateral Inhibition
apparent size
Response Bias
41. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Phi Phenomenon
Autokinetic effect
Cones
Dark adaptation
42. The optic nerve is made up of...
False alarm
Vision
Rods
Ganglion cells
43. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Photopigments
Figure and ground relationship
Receiver operating characteristic
Differential Threshold
44. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Optic Chasm
Hue
Color constancy
E.H. Weber
45. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Frequency
Robert Frantz
Correct Rejection
46. 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
Weber'S Law
Autokinetic effect
Rods
47. 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.
1000hz
Visual Cliff
Differential Threshold
Weber'S Law
48. Located by the cornea
Phi Phenomenon
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Lens
Outer ear
49. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Minimum principle
Gestalt Psychology
Weber'S Law
Ciliary Muscles
50. 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'
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Optic Chasm
Cones
Visual Cliff