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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Located by the cornea
3 steps involving sensation
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Lens
Fechner'S Law
2. 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.
Vision
Hue
binoculary disparity
Optic Chasm
3. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Gestat Ideas
Cones
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
James Gibson
4. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Fechner'S Law
Timbre
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Symmetry
5. humans best hear at
Nativist Theory
Receptor Cells
Ciliary Muscles
1000hz
6. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Mental set
Gestalt Psychology
7. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Ewald Hering
Outer ear
Hit
Hermann Von Hemholtz
8. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Perception
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Impossible Objects
9. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Optic Chasm
Optic Array
Receptor Cells
Closure
10. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Absolute threshold
Receiver operating characteristic
Purkinje shift
Perception
11. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
Depth perception
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Light
12. 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.
Outer ear
McCollough Effect
Hit
Constancy
13. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Proximity
Purkinje shift
Closure
Terminal Threshold
14. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Visual Field
Correct Rejection
Optic Array
Miss
15. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Array
Optic Chasm
False alarm
texture gradient
16. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Gestat Ideas
Lateral Inhibition
Light
Sensation
17. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Absolute threshold
Continuation
Visual Cliff
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
18. 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'
Proximity
Visual Cliff
3 steps involving sensation
Correct Rejection
19. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Optic Array
Optic Chasm
Terminal Threshold
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
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Retina
Middle ear
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
21. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Figure and ground relationship
Cornea
Amplitude
Dark adaptation
22. 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
Absolute threshold
Lens
False alarm
Retina
23. 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.
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
motion parallax
Purkinje shift
24. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Ewald Hering
Cornea
Depth perception
25. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Structuralist Theory
Moon Illusion
Lateral Inhibition
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
26. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Visual Field
Retina
Linear perspective
apparent size
27. 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
Amplitude
Visual Acuity
Perceptual Development
Purkinje shift
28. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Reception
Perception
Visual Pathway
Ciliary Muscles
29. 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
Dark adaptation
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Optic Chasm
Autokinetic effect
30. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Cornea
Robert Frantz
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Figure and ground relationship
31. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Optic Chasm
Optic Chasm
Cornea
Visual Pathway
32. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
Fovea
Ewald Hering
Receiver operating characteristic
33. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Optic Chasm
False alarm
Photopigments
Linear perspective
34. Revolves around perception and asserts that people tend to see the world as comprised of organized wholes. The world is understood through top-down processing.
Hue
binoculary disparity
Gestalt Psychology
McCollough Effect
35. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Response Bias
Dark adaptation
Middle ear
Perceptual Development
36. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
3 steps involving sensation
Optic Chasm
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
37. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
After light passes through receptors
Prosopagnosia
Linear perspective
Mental set
38. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Correct Rejection
Cones
Miss
Weber'S Law
39. 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.
Reception
Optic Chasm
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
James Gibson
40. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Fovea
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Continuation
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
41. Is the inability to recognize faces
Fovea
Prosopagnosia
Phi Phenomenon
Absolute threshold
42. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Size Constancy
apparent size
Lens
43. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Linear perspective
Receptive Field
Brightness
Response Bias
44. 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
Ganglion cells
Ciliary Muscles
Photopigments
45. 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.
Sensation
Response Bias
Lateral Inhibition
Fechner'S Law
46. The physical intensity of light
Purkinje shift
Lateral Inhibition
Lens
Brightness
47. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Ponzo Illusion
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Miss
Absolute threshold
48. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Visual Pathway
Terminal Threshold
Retina
Frequency
49. 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.
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Dark adaptation
Moon Illusion
Figure and ground relationship
50. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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