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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Located by the cornea
Weber'S Law
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Lens
Prosopagnosia
2. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
motion parallax
Frequency
Amplitude
3. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Dark adaptation
Gestat Ideas
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
4. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Symmetry
Rods
False alarm
Receiver operating characteristic
5. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Receptor Cells
binoculary disparity
Pragnanz
Visual Pathway
6. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Cornea
Optic Chasm
Prosopagnosia
3 steps involving sensation
7. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Moon Illusion
Nativist Theory
Constancy
Phi Phenomenon
8. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Timbre
Reception
interposition
Visual Field
9. 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
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Ciliary Muscles
Middle ear
10. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
apparent size
motion parallax
Gestalt Psychology
Fovea
11. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Ciliary Muscles
Visual Acuity
Receiver operating characteristic
Hermann Von Hemholtz
12. The physical intensity of light
Depth perception
Photopigments
Middle ear
Brightness
13. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Autokinetic effect
Color constancy
The visual pathway
Visual Cliff
14. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Ewald Hering
Linear perspective
Frequency
The visual pathway
15. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Rods
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Weber'S Law
Perceptual Development
16. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Terminal Threshold
Structuralist Theory
Differential Threshold
Visual Cliff
17. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Outer ear
Receptor Cells
Optic Array
Optic Chasm
18. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Terminal Threshold
Mental set
Correct Rejection
Lens
19. 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.
Visual Cliff
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Frequency
Optic Chasm
20. 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'
Color constancy
Optic Chasm
Autokinetic effect
Visual Cliff
21. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
texture gradient
Absolute threshold
Visual Pathway
Robert Frantz
22. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Visual Acuity
Ciliary Muscles
Absolute threshold
Robert Frantz
23. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Visual Pathway
Figure and ground relationship
Hit
Prosopagnosia
24. 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.
Constancy
Lateral Inhibition
3 steps involving sensation
E.H. Weber
25. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Weber'S Law
Correct Rejection
Nativist Theory
After light passes through receptors
26. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Inner ear
Light
Perception
Brightness
27. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Response Bias
Closure
Light
Minimum principle
28. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Vision
Amplitude
binoculary disparity
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
29. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Vision
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Moon Illusion
30. Is the inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
Correct Rejection
Fovea
Frequency
31. 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.
Hue
Dark adaptation
The visual pathway
Constancy
32. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Gestalt Psychology
Reception
Correct Rejection
Cones
33. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Neural Pathways
Receptor Cells
Ciliary Muscles
34. 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
apparent size
Weber'S Law
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
35. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Amplitude
motion parallax
Impossible Objects
36. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Minimum principle
Lateral Inhibition
Miss
Frequency
37. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Impossible Objects
Symmetry
Timbre
38. 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
Ewald Hering
McCollough Effect
Retina
Moon Illusion
39. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Structuralist Theory
Correct Rejection
Minimum principle
Visual Cliff
40. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Optic Array
Fovea
Rods
41. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
Terminal Threshold
Ganglion cells
Fechner'S Law
42. 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.
Neural Pathways
Differential Threshold
Gestalt Psychology
Autokinetic effect
43. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
interposition
Sensation
Miss
44. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
motion parallax
Cornea
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Terminal Threshold
45. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Moon Illusion
Terminal Threshold
interposition
Light
46. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Cornea
Visual Cliff
Frequency
Hit
47. 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
1000hz
Color constancy
Visual Pathway
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
48. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Light
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Receptor Cells
49. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Proximity
Perceptual Development
Receptive Field
Miss
50. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
interposition
Constancy
Ponzo Illusion
Weber'S Law