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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Fovea
Outer ear
Proximity
2. humans best hear at
1000hz
Photopigments
Continuation
Weber'S Law
3. Is the inability to recognize faces
Optic Chasm
Prosopagnosia
Visual Field
Current thinking about sensation and perception
4. Best at seeing fine details
Depth perception
Dark adaptation
Visual Acuity
Impossible Objects
5. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Miss
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Visual Pathway
6. 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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7. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
texture gradient
McCollough Effect
Phi Phenomenon
8. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ewald Hering
Inner ear
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Closure
9. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Moon Illusion
3 steps involving sensation
interposition
Correct Rejection
10. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
The visual pathway
interposition
Linear perspective
Cornea
11. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
texture gradient
Prosopagnosia
Neural Pathways
12. 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
Neural Pathways
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Pragnanz
McCollough Effect
13. The optic nerve is made up of...
Continuation
Ganglion cells
Frequency
Cones
14. 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.
Weber'S Law
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Phi Phenomenon
Moon Illusion
15. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Continuation
Timbre
Miss
Muller-Lyer Illusion
16. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Size Constancy
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Dark adaptation
Rods
17. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
1000hz
Photopigments
Light
18. 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
Lateral Inhibition
Structuralist Theory
binoculary disparity
Dark adaptation
19. Has monocular and binocular cues
Absolute threshold
Hue
Depth perception
Ponzo Illusion
20. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
Visual Cliff
Purkinje shift
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
21. 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
Middle ear
Optic Chasm
Purkinje shift
interposition
22. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Hue
Reception
Visual Field
Minimum principle
23. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Brightness
Optic Array
Perception
motion parallax
24. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Structuralist Theory
Correct Rejection
Lens
Hit
25. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Symmetry
Gestat Ideas
Sensation
James Gibson
26. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Light
Optic Array
Purkinje shift
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
27. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Fechner'S Law
After light passes through receptors
Absolute threshold
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
28. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Figure and ground relationship
Continuation
Structuralist Theory
29. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Weber'S Law
Absolute threshold
Receptive Field
Fovea
30. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Visual Field
Neural Pathways
Closure
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
31. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Continuation
Robert Frantz
Visual Field
Prosopagnosia
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.
Retina
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Visual Pathway
Constancy
33. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Structuralist Theory
1000hz
Absolute threshold
Ewald Hering
34. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Inner ear
Response Bias
Gestalt Psychology
Cornea
35. 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
Amplitude
Outer ear
Phi Phenomenon
Light
36. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Purkinje shift
Perceptual Development
Lens
37. 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
Light
Retina
Gestat Ideas
Robert Frantz
38. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Vision
apparent size
Cornea
Correct Rejection
39. 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.
Visual Pathway
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Perceptual Development
40. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Inner ear
E.H. Weber
Proximity
Constancy
41. 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.
Light
Ponzo Illusion
Rods
Constancy
42. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Gestalt Psychology
Hit
Optic Chasm
Current thinking about sensation and perception
43. Why do cones see better than rods?
Lateral Inhibition
Retina
Nativist Theory
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
44. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Correct Rejection
Brightness
Visual Acuity
45. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Inner ear
Linear perspective
Structuralist Theory
apparent size
46. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Optic Chasm
Middle ear
Prosopagnosia
Gestat Ideas
47. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Phi Phenomenon
Color constancy
Ganglion cells
Hue
48. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
False alarm
Outer ear
Correct Rejection
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
49. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Phi Phenomenon
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Reception
Linear perspective
50. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Fechner'S Law
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Nativist Theory