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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Outer ear
Symmetry
Proximity
Size Constancy
2. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Cones
Figure and ground relationship
Mental set
False alarm
3. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
interposition
Depth perception
McCollough Effect
4. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Nativist Theory
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
motion parallax
Impossible Objects
5. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Lens
False alarm
Absolute threshold
6. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Pragnanz
Impossible Objects
Optic Array
Muller-Lyer Illusion
7. 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
Outer ear
McCollough Effect
Robert Frantz
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
8. 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
interposition
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Middle ear
Continuation
9. 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
Brightness
Dark adaptation
Middle ear
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
10. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Dark adaptation
Moon Illusion
interposition
The visual pathway
11. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Array
Visual Field
Optic Chasm
Timbre
12. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Lateral Inhibition
Cornea
Visual Pathway
Optic Array
13. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Outer ear
binoculary disparity
Receiver operating characteristic
Ponzo Illusion
14. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
3 steps involving sensation
Pragnanz
apparent size
Visual Field
15. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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16. The optic nerve is made up of...
Receptive Field
Ganglion cells
Gestat Ideas
interposition
17. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Optic Chasm
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Hit
18. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Ganglion cells
Perception
Vision
Miss
19. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Photopigments
Continuation
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
20. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Cones
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Lens
21. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Response Bias
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Figure and ground relationship
Rods
22. Is the inability to recognize faces
Brightness
Receptor Cells
E.H. Weber
Prosopagnosia
23. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Outer ear
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Hue
Pragnanz
24. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Closure
Retina
Hue
25. humans best hear at
binoculary disparity
1000hz
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Figure and ground relationship
26. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Closure
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
E.H. Weber
27. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Frequency
apparent size
Inner ear
Hue
28. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Purkinje shift
Receiver operating characteristic
Fovea
E.H. Weber
29. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Dark adaptation
Proximity
Symmetry
Structuralist Theory
30. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Reception
Figure and ground relationship
Correct Rejection
Neural Pathways
31. The physical intensity of light
Brightness
interposition
Lens
Color constancy
32. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Color constancy
Mental set
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Receiver operating characteristic
33. Best at seeing fine details
Figure and ground relationship
Visual Acuity
Moon Illusion
Current thinking about sensation and perception
34. Located by the cornea
Visual Acuity
Lens
Structuralist Theory
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
35. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Response Bias
Perceptual Development
Closure
36. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Response Bias
Optic Chasm
Timbre
1000hz
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
texture gradient
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Purkinje shift
Retina
38. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Continuation
Fechner'S Law
E.H. Weber
Autokinetic effect
39. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Proximity
Cones
Gestalt Psychology
40. 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.
Differential Threshold
Constancy
Pragnanz
Correct Rejection
41. 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.
Neural Pathways
Receiver operating characteristic
Continuation
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
42. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Nativist Theory
Proximity
Current thinking about sensation and perception
43. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Minimum principle
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
binoculary disparity
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
44. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Continuation
The visual pathway
Optic Array
45. Are particularly sensitive to dim light and are used for night vision. They are also concentrated along the sides of the retina - making them extremely important for peripheral vision
Receptive Field
Fechner'S Law
Rods
Ciliary Muscles
46. 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.
Absolute threshold
Moon Illusion
Optic Chasm
texture gradient
47. How we organize or experience sensations
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Terminal Threshold
Perception
Cones
48. 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
Purkinje shift
Ewald Hering
Color constancy
1000hz
49. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Receptor Cells
Retina
Linear perspective
Minimum principle
50. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
James Gibson
binoculary disparity
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Amplitude