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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Dark adaptation
Receptor Cells
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Closure
2. 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'
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Visual Cliff
Amplitude
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
3. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Absolute threshold
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
After light passes through receptors
interposition
4. Located by the cornea
Visual Acuity
Response Bias
Lens
Cones
5. 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
Receptive Field
Perceptual Development
Impossible Objects
6. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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7. 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
Prosopagnosia
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Vision
Retina
8. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
After light passes through receptors
Linear perspective
Lateral Inhibition
Cones
9. The physical intensity of light
Brightness
McCollough Effect
Photopigments
Frequency
10. 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.
False alarm
Current thinking about sensation and perception
James Gibson
Optic Chasm
11. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
3 steps involving sensation
Nativist Theory
Outer ear
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
12. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Prosopagnosia
Fovea
Neural Pathways
13. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Cones
Reception
Absolute threshold
Differential Threshold
14. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
After light passes through receptors
3 steps involving sensation
Pragnanz
Timbre
15. Why do cones see better than rods?
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Brightness
Constancy
Optic Chasm
16. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Amplitude
Brightness
Vision
Current thinking about sensation and perception
17. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Receiver operating characteristic
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Receptor Cells
18. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Inner ear
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Outer ear
Absolute threshold
19. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Closure
Receiver operating characteristic
Outer ear
False alarm
20. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Cornea
Size Constancy
Receiver operating characteristic
Ciliary Muscles
21. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Figure and ground relationship
The visual pathway
Dark adaptation
22. Is the inability to recognize faces
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Robert Frantz
Prosopagnosia
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
23. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Receptive Field
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Symmetry
Constancy
24. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Receptive Field
Prosopagnosia
Hue
Fechner'S Law
25. Best at seeing fine details
Cornea
Rods
Visual Acuity
Retina
26. The optic nerve is made up of...
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Ganglion cells
The visual pathway
Hit
27. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
E.H. Weber
Vision
Terminal Threshold
Continuation
28. 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
Muller-Lyer Illusion
binoculary disparity
Cones
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
29. 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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30. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Continuation
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
E.H. Weber
Color constancy
31. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Ciliary Muscles
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Color constancy
Minimum principle
32. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
motion parallax
Gestat Ideas
apparent size
33. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Purkinje shift
Perceptual Development
Color constancy
Light
34. Along the visual pathway is the...
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Cones
Lateral Inhibition
Optic Chasm
35. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Visual Field
Timbre
Moon Illusion
Gestat Ideas
36. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Amplitude
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Figure and ground relationship
37. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Constancy
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Lens
Hit
38. 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.
Sensation
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Hue
Receptor Cells
39. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Weber'S Law
Perceptual Development
Receptor Cells
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
40. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Linear perspective
Correct Rejection
Sensation
Closure
41. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
3 steps involving sensation
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Ponzo Illusion
42. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Hue
Prosopagnosia
motion parallax
Pragnanz
43. Is the way that perceived color brightness changes with the level of illumination in the room. With lower levels of illumination - the extremes of the color spectrum (especially red) are seen as less bright
Purkinje shift
Depth perception
Visual Field
apparent size
44. 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
Depth perception
Minimum principle
Rods
Proximity
45. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Receptive Field
E.H. Weber
Rods
Ewald Hering
46. humans best hear at
After light passes through receptors
Middle ear
1000hz
Prosopagnosia
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
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Cones
Linear perspective
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
48. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Vision
motion parallax
Differential Threshold
Receptor Cells
49. 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.
motion parallax
Muller-Lyer Illusion
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Terminal Threshold
50. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Miss
Continuation
Reception
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
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