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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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
Brightness
Dark adaptation
Impossible Objects
Phi Phenomenon
2. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Gestalt Psychology
apparent size
3 steps involving sensation
Neural Pathways
3. Best at seeing fine details
James Gibson
Visual Acuity
Gestat Ideas
Ciliary Muscles
4. 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
Correct Rejection
3 steps involving sensation
McCollough Effect
Phi Phenomenon
5. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
Pragnanz
Photopigments
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
6. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Lens
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Ponzo Illusion
Pragnanz
7. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Pragnanz
Proximity
Light
8. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Perception
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Retina
Symmetry
9. 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
Amplitude
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
10. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Photopigments
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Pragnanz
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
11. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Fechner'S Law
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Continuation
Cones
12. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Retina
motion parallax
Neural Pathways
Closure
13. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
1000hz
Linear perspective
Optic Chasm
Hue
14. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Visual Field
Visual Pathway
Neural Pathways
Absolute threshold
15. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Figure and ground relationship
Nativist Theory
Timbre
E.H. Weber
16. Has monocular and binocular cues
Response Bias
Visual Acuity
Depth perception
Optic Chasm
17. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Light
Perception
Hue
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
18. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Absolute threshold
Light
Structuralist Theory
19. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Retina
Robert Frantz
Visual Cliff
Mental set
20. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Receptive Field
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Minimum principle
Ewald Hering
21. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
1000hz
Receptor Cells
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Hermann Von Hemholtz
22. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Hit
Middle ear
Structuralist Theory
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
23. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Response Bias
Muller-Lyer Illusion
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Frequency
24. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Fovea
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Visual Acuity
Depth perception
25. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Pragnanz
After light passes through receptors
Differential Threshold
Dark adaptation
26. 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
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Fechner'S Law
Optic Chasm
Outer ear
27. The physical intensity of light
McCollough Effect
Minimum principle
Fovea
Brightness
28. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Fechner'S Law
Impossible Objects
James Gibson
29. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Receptor Cells
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Optic Chasm
30. Is the inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
Closure
motion parallax
Photopigments
31. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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32. We see objects because of the light they reflect
E.H. Weber
Vision
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Fovea
33. 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
Closure
Purkinje shift
Inner ear
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
34. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
After light passes through receptors
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Prosopagnosia
Visual Cliff
35. 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.
Size Constancy
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
False alarm
Correct Rejection
36. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Outer ear
Ciliary Muscles
37. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Size Constancy
motion parallax
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
38. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Color constancy
Retina
Lateral Inhibition
Correct Rejection
39. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Ponzo Illusion
Lateral Inhibition
Rods
Hit
40. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Hue
Gestat Ideas
Cornea
Nativist Theory
41. The optic nerve is made up of...
Phi Phenomenon
Ganglion cells
Lens
Vision
42. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Constancy
Sensation
Light
Receptive Field
43. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Brightness
Optic Array
Photopigments
Lateral Inhibition
44. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Absolute threshold
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Depth perception
45. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Absolute threshold
Terminal Threshold
Robert Frantz
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
46. 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.
Gestalt Psychology
3 steps involving sensation
Gestat Ideas
Hit
47. 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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48. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Gestat Ideas
Symmetry
Cones
Correct Rejection
49. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Reception
Outer ear
Visual Acuity
Fovea
50. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Nativist Theory
Phi Phenomenon
Symmetry
Fechner'S Law
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