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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Correct Rejection
Depth perception
Receptive Field
Current thinking about sensation and perception
2. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Symmetry
Receptor Cells
Terminal Threshold
3. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Photopigments
E.H. Weber
Optic Array
Retina
4. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Receptive Field
Robert Frantz
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
The visual pathway
5. 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
Outer ear
Inner ear
Proximity
Absolute threshold
6. 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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7. Located by the cornea
Gestalt Psychology
Outer ear
Lens
Receptive Field
8. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Phi Phenomenon
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Receptive Field
9. 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.
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
motion parallax
False alarm
Photopigments
10. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Continuation
Cornea
Mental set
Robert Frantz
11. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Autokinetic effect
Impossible Objects
Rods
The visual pathway
12. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Nativist Theory
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Ewald Hering
McCollough Effect
13. 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
Figure and ground relationship
Hit
Terminal Threshold
McCollough Effect
14. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Visual Acuity
3 steps involving sensation
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Frequency
15. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Hue
After light passes through receptors
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
16. 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.
1000hz
Middle ear
Terminal Threshold
Moon Illusion
17. Why do cones see better than rods?
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Lateral Inhibition
Phi Phenomenon
18. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Color constancy
Timbre
Absolute threshold
Hue
19. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Impossible Objects
James Gibson
Proximity
binoculary disparity
20. 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
Fovea
Correct Rejection
Middle ear
Depth perception
21. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Brightness
Timbre
Size Constancy
Minimum principle
22. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Fechner'S Law
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Closure
Linear perspective
23. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Optic Chasm
Mental set
Correct Rejection
Structuralist Theory
24. 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.
Receptive Field
Constancy
Optic Chasm
The visual pathway
25. 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
The visual pathway
Autokinetic effect
Size Constancy
26. Best at seeing fine details
Outer ear
Inner ear
Fovea
Visual Acuity
27. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Fovea
Structuralist Theory
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
28. The physical intensity of light
Amplitude
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
texture gradient
Brightness
29. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
E.H. Weber
binoculary disparity
Cornea
Fovea
30. 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
Nativist Theory
Retina
Closure
Color constancy
31. Has monocular and binocular cues
McCollough Effect
Ganglion cells
Depth perception
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
32. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Ciliary Muscles
James Gibson
Fechner'S Law
Proximity
33. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Middle ear
Size Constancy
Ponzo Illusion
Receiver operating characteristic
34. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Continuation
Depth perception
Symmetry
Frequency
35. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Dark adaptation
Ciliary Muscles
Phi Phenomenon
Fovea
36. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Dark adaptation
1000hz
Symmetry
Linear perspective
37. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Autokinetic effect
Rods
Figure and ground relationship
Cornea
38. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Vision
Pragnanz
Photopigments
Figure and ground relationship
39. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
Receptive Field
Phi Phenomenon
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
40. 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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41. 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
Absolute threshold
Rods
Fovea
Visual Pathway
42. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Brightness
Autokinetic effect
Size Constancy
43. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
texture gradient
Cornea
Perception
Amplitude
44. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Neural Pathways
Inner ear
Depth perception
Vision
45. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Outer ear
Impossible Objects
Timbre
46. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
False alarm
texture gradient
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
1000hz
47. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Hue
Reception
apparent size
48. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Symmetry
Impossible Objects
Minimum principle
apparent size
49. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Response Bias
Receptor Cells
Proximity
Timbre
50. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Minimum principle
Vision
Ganglion cells
Visual Field