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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Absolute threshold
After light passes through receptors
Correct Rejection
Structuralist Theory
2. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Cornea
Ciliary Muscles
Impossible Objects
Linear perspective
3. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Prosopagnosia
Sensation
Absolute threshold
Phi Phenomenon
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
Cones
McCollough Effect
Response Bias
Light
5. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Lens
Response Bias
Minimum principle
Differential Threshold
6. humans best hear at
Visual Pathway
Current thinking about sensation and perception
1000hz
Perception
7. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
Linear perspective
Outer ear
binoculary disparity
8. How we organize or experience sensations
Visual Acuity
Light
Response Bias
Perception
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
binoculary disparity
Perception
Figure and ground relationship
Muller-Lyer Illusion
10. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
James Gibson
Differential Threshold
McCollough Effect
Current thinking about sensation and perception
11. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Depth perception
apparent size
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Closure
12. The optic nerve is made up of...
Weber'S Law
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Ganglion cells
Cones
13. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
After light passes through receptors
14. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Perceptual Development
Optic Array
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
15. 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
Nativist Theory
Purkinje shift
Ponzo Illusion
Middle ear
16. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Visual Field
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Hit
texture gradient
17. 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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18. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Visual Field
Ganglion cells
Retina
Miss
19. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Neural Pathways
Lateral Inhibition
Continuation
Perception
20. Why do cones see better than rods?
Closure
Receptor Cells
Lens
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
21. 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.
Response Bias
Gestalt Psychology
Nativist Theory
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
22. Located by the cornea
Perception
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Lens
Receiver operating characteristic
23. 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
Outer ear
Frequency
Middle ear
Visual Acuity
24. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Terminal Threshold
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Frequency
The visual pathway
25. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Hue
Size Constancy
Light
Receptive Field
26. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Lateral Inhibition
Amplitude
Minimum principle
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
27. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Optic Chasm
Symmetry
Visual Cliff
Mental set
28. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Structuralist Theory
Constancy
Cornea
Current thinking about sensation and perception
29. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
The visual pathway
Pragnanz
Current thinking about sensation and perception
30. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Optic Chasm
Rods
31. 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.
Visual Acuity
Outer ear
Pragnanz
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
32. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Size Constancy
Neural Pathways
Gestat Ideas
33. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Vision
Prosopagnosia
motion parallax
Receptive Field
34. 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
Outer ear
Gestat Ideas
Phi Phenomenon
Receptor Cells
35. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
interposition
Linear perspective
Depth perception
Absolute threshold
36. Also known as just noticeable difference. The minimum difference that must occur between two stimuli - in order for them to be perceived as having different intensities.
Gestalt Psychology
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Differential Threshold
Minimum principle
37. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Lens
Timbre
Depth perception
Miss
38. 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
Photopigments
Inner ear
interposition
Dark adaptation
39. 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
Autokinetic effect
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Continuation
40. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
James Gibson
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Light
41. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Retina
Sensation
Neural Pathways
Cones
42. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Reception
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Proximity
43. 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'
Optic Chasm
Amplitude
Visual Cliff
Sensation
44. Is the inability to recognize faces
motion parallax
Visual Acuity
Prosopagnosia
McCollough Effect
45. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Light
Terminal Threshold
Reception
Visual Cliff
46. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Miss
Lens
Continuation
After light passes through receptors
47. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Hermann Von Hemholtz
texture gradient
motion parallax
48. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Reception
Gestat Ideas
Light
Ewald Hering
49. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Hit
Nativist Theory
Continuation
Linear perspective
50. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Proximity
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel