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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
Continuation
Response Bias
Structuralist Theory
2. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Constancy
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Structuralist Theory
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
3. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Perceptual Development
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Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Optic Chasm
4. 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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5. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Perceptual Development
Size Constancy
False alarm
Response Bias
6. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Receptive Field
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Response Bias
7. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
Perception
apparent size
Receptive Field
8. How we organize or experience sensations
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Photopigments
Perception
Outer ear
9. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Retina
Optic Array
Nativist Theory
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
10. 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
Proximity
interposition
Amplitude
Phi Phenomenon
11. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Ponzo Illusion
Terminal Threshold
Frequency
Cones
12. 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.
Visual Cliff
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Dark adaptation
Optic Chasm
13. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Reception
Optic Array
Impossible Objects
James Gibson
14. 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
Prosopagnosia
Neural Pathways
Perceptual Development
15. 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
Minimum principle
Ewald Hering
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Optic Chasm
16. The optic nerve is made up of...
3 steps involving sensation
Ganglion cells
Visual Pathway
Linear perspective
17. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Lens
False alarm
Impossible Objects
Receiver operating characteristic
18. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Lens
James Gibson
Lateral Inhibition
texture gradient
19. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Current thinking about sensation and perception
3 steps involving sensation
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
Visual Cliff
Pragnanz
Ponzo Illusion
Middle ear
21. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
E.H. Weber
interposition
Retina
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
22. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Terminal Threshold
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Pragnanz
Sensation
23. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Hue
Visual Acuity
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
24. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Dark adaptation
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Outer ear
motion parallax
25. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Lateral Inhibition
Ewald Hering
Robert Frantz
Fovea
26. Is the inability to recognize faces
Visual Acuity
texture gradient
Vision
Prosopagnosia
27. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
James Gibson
Cornea
Minimum principle
Optic Array
28. 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
Inner ear
Moon Illusion
Mental set
Robert Frantz
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
False alarm
Autokinetic effect
Frequency
apparent size
30. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
texture gradient
Miss
Outer ear
Response Bias
31. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
apparent size
Gestat Ideas
Closure
Current thinking about sensation and perception
32. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
interposition
Visual Pathway
Correct Rejection
Optic Chasm
33. Has monocular and binocular cues
Ewald Hering
Depth perception
Visual Pathway
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
34. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Ewald Hering
Optic Array
Sensation
Linear perspective
35. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Receiver operating characteristic
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Constancy
Frequency
36. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Gestat Ideas
Miss
Cones
Outer ear
37. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Hue
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
E.H. Weber
Photopigments
38. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Retina
Response Bias
Receptor Cells
Minimum principle
39. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Reception
apparent size
Continuation
Proximity
40. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Middle ear
After light passes through receptors
Ponzo Illusion
Ganglion cells
41. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Closure
Purkinje shift
False alarm
binoculary disparity
42. 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.
Neural Pathways
Optic Array
Dark adaptation
motion parallax
43. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Autokinetic effect
Optic Chasm
Hit
Photopigments
44. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Nativist Theory
Structuralist Theory
Symmetry
Fechner'S Law
45. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Fechner'S Law
Continuation
Symmetry
Miss
46. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Inner ear
Gestat Ideas
Optic Chasm
Light
47. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
motion parallax
E.H. Weber
Perceptual Development
Prosopagnosia
48. 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
Robert Frantz
Hue
False alarm
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
49. 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.
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Absolute threshold
Minimum principle
Purkinje shift
50. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Hue
Impossible Objects
Inner ear
Hermann Von Hemholtz
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