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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
Figure and ground relationship
Visual Cliff
Ganglion cells
2. Has monocular and binocular cues
Reception
Depth perception
Pragnanz
Receptor Cells
3. Best at seeing fine details
Linear perspective
Brightness
apparent size
Visual Acuity
4. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Receptive Field
Pragnanz
Depth perception
Sensation
5. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Robert Frantz
Structuralist Theory
Continuation
Hit
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.
Terminal Threshold
Differential Threshold
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Continuation
7. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Proximity
The visual pathway
Pragnanz
Ganglion cells
8. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Size Constancy
Proximity
Constancy
texture gradient
9. 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
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Pragnanz
Inner ear
Photopigments
10. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
3 steps involving sensation
The visual pathway
Current thinking about sensation and perception
texture gradient
11. 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.
Differential Threshold
Retina
Optic Chasm
Proximity
12. Along the visual pathway is the...
Response Bias
After light passes through receptors
Optic Chasm
Proximity
13. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Miss
Prosopagnosia
Ganglion cells
Closure
14. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Color constancy
texture gradient
Weber'S Law
15. Located by the cornea
Lens
Visual Acuity
3 steps involving sensation
Ponzo Illusion
16. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Constancy
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Fovea
Hit
17. 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
Receptive Field
motion parallax
Robert Frantz
18. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
James Gibson
McCollough Effect
The visual pathway
Visual Acuity
19. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Terminal Threshold
Depth perception
Optic Chasm
Brightness
20. Applies to all senses but only to a limited range of intensities. The law states that a stimulus needs to be increased by a constant fraction of its original value in order to be noticeably different
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21. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Phi Phenomenon
Timbre
Ewald Hering
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
22. 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
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Retina
Rods
Pragnanz
23. 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
Structuralist Theory
McCollough Effect
Autokinetic effect
texture gradient
24. 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
3 steps involving sensation
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
25. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
Rods
False alarm
Autokinetic effect
26. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Visual Cliff
Symmetry
Neural Pathways
McCollough Effect
27. 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
Brightness
McCollough Effect
Impossible Objects
Constancy
28. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Receptive Field
Response Bias
Impossible Objects
Depth perception
29. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Visual Pathway
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Sensation
Response Bias
30. Is the inability to recognize faces
Impossible Objects
Fovea
Absolute threshold
Prosopagnosia
31. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Visual Field
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Visual Acuity
Timbre
32. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Light
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Lateral Inhibition
33. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
McCollough Effect
Mental set
Depth perception
Gestat Ideas
34. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Ponzo Illusion
Prosopagnosia
Perceptual Development
Color constancy
35. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Perception
Reception
interposition
Pragnanz
36. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Sensation
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Miss
Correct Rejection
37. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Miss
Fovea
Inner ear
Receiver operating characteristic
38. humans best hear at
Purkinje shift
Hue
1000hz
Photopigments
39. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
The visual pathway
Color constancy
Visual Pathway
Pragnanz
40. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
1000hz
Frequency
Size Constancy
Correct Rejection
41. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Optic Array
Ewald Hering
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Vision
42. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Size Constancy
Receptive Field
James Gibson
Light
43. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Absolute threshold
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
E.H. Weber
Perceptual Development
44. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Cones
After light passes through receptors
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
45. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
Ciliary Muscles
Prosopagnosia
Structuralist Theory
46. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Size Constancy
Absolute threshold
False alarm
Miss
47. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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48. 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.
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Middle ear
motion parallax
apparent size
49. 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.
Lateral Inhibition
Mental set
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
interposition
50. 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
Reception
binoculary disparity
interposition
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz