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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Prosopagnosia
Terminal Threshold
Vision
2. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
Amplitude
binoculary disparity
Current thinking about sensation and perception
3. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Gestat Ideas
Rods
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
4. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Purkinje shift
Cones
Brightness
Optic Array
5. How we organize or experience sensations
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Terminal Threshold
1000hz
Perception
6. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Lateral Inhibition
Depth perception
1000hz
7. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Middle ear
Gestat Ideas
E.H. Weber
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
8. 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.
Absolute threshold
McCollough Effect
motion parallax
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
9. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Frequency
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Absolute threshold
Reception
10. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
binoculary disparity
Closure
Inner ear
James Gibson
11. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Structuralist Theory
Minimum principle
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Color constancy
12. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Perception
Autokinetic effect
After light passes through receptors
Optic Chasm
13. 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
texture gradient
Robert Frantz
Sensation
14. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Frequency
Correct Rejection
Closure
texture gradient
15. 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
Retina
Color constancy
Fovea
Autokinetic effect
16. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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17. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Autokinetic effect
Closure
1000hz
Visual Acuity
18. 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.
Rods
Moon Illusion
Amplitude
Depth perception
19. The physical intensity of light
Receptor Cells
Brightness
Vision
Symmetry
20. Along the visual pathway is the...
Minimum principle
Hue
Ciliary Muscles
Optic Chasm
21. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Fechner'S Law
Visual Pathway
Brightness
Nativist Theory
22. Located by the cornea
Terminal Threshold
Brightness
Lens
Optic Chasm
23. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Depth perception
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Size Constancy
Visual Field
24. 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
Hue
Inner ear
Perception
Absolute threshold
25. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Visual Field
Figure and ground relationship
After light passes through receptors
26. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Perceptual Development
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Outer ear
Perception
27. 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.
Hermann Von Hemholtz
motion parallax
Hit
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
28. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Cones
Nativist Theory
Brightness
Weber'S Law
29. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Cones
Ewald Hering
Amplitude
30. Is the inability to recognize faces
Receptive Field
Robert Frantz
Prosopagnosia
Weber'S Law
31. 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
Visual Field
Symmetry
Optic Chasm
32. 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
Rods
Differential Threshold
Photopigments
33. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Minimum principle
Lens
Correct Rejection
Fovea
34. 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
Cornea
Retina
Ciliary Muscles
James Gibson
35. Best at seeing fine details
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Hue
Visual Acuity
Gestalt Psychology
36. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Depth perception
Mental set
Hue
E.H. Weber
37. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
motion parallax
Hit
Optic Chasm
apparent size
38. 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
Hit
After light passes through receptors
Purkinje shift
39. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Visual Cliff
Size Constancy
Gestalt Psychology
Hermann Von Hemholtz
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. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
3 steps involving sensation
Lens
Receptor Cells
Structuralist Theory
42. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
McCollough Effect
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Fechner'S Law
Cones
43. 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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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
Optic Array
Rods
Receptive Field
Depth perception
45. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ponzo Illusion
Visual Field
Response Bias
Ewald Hering
46. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
apparent size
Linear perspective
Terminal Threshold
47. The most famous of all visual illusions. Two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of the orientation of the arrow marks at the end. Inward facing arrow marks make the line appear shorter than another line of the same length with ou
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Rods
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Ciliary Muscles
48. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Perception
Receptive Field
Light
49. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Reception
Size Constancy
Color constancy
Retina
50. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Mental set
Structuralist Theory
Visual Cliff
Gestat Ideas