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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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.
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Visual Field
Nativist Theory
2. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Weber'S Law
Pragnanz
Impossible Objects
Dark adaptation
3. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Constancy
Reception
Brightness
Visual Acuity
4. 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
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Middle ear
Autokinetic effect
Optic Array
5. 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.
Optic Chasm
Receptive Field
Gestalt Psychology
Moon Illusion
6. 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
Closure
Pragnanz
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Absolute threshold
7. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Brightness
Sensation
texture gradient
Photopigments
8. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Size Constancy
Amplitude
Continuation
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
9. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Timbre
texture gradient
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Ewald Hering
10. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Receptive Field
Amplitude
Visual Field
Autokinetic effect
11. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Ewald Hering
Nativist Theory
Lateral Inhibition
The visual pathway
12. humans best hear at
1000hz
Terminal Threshold
Gestalt Psychology
McCollough Effect
13. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Fovea
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
apparent size
E.H. Weber
14. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Closure
Fovea
James Gibson
Hermann Von Hemholtz
15. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Vision
Sensation
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
apparent size
16. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Rods
Terminal Threshold
Optic Chasm
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
17. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Receptive Field
interposition
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Moon Illusion
18. 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.
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Receiver operating characteristic
Vision
19. 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 Acuity
binoculary disparity
Hit
Middle ear
20. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Minimum principle
Outer ear
texture gradient
21. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Weber'S Law
Response Bias
Amplitude
Terminal Threshold
22. 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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23. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Light
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Gestalt Psychology
Lens
24. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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25. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Neural Pathways
Response Bias
Gestat Ideas
Pragnanz
26. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
The visual pathway
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Weber'S Law
27. 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
McCollough Effect
Retina
Differential Threshold
interposition
28. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
After light passes through receptors
Mental set
Reception
Hue
29. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Gestat Ideas
Differential Threshold
Correct Rejection
Optic Chasm
30. 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
Brightness
McCollough Effect
Ganglion cells
Cones
31. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Vision
Optic Array
Depth perception
Color constancy
32. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Minimum principle
Dark adaptation
Timbre
33. 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.
Response Bias
Lateral Inhibition
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Constancy
34. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Terminal Threshold
Purkinje shift
Outer ear
Ciliary Muscles
35. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Rods
E.H. Weber
36. Best at seeing fine details
Weber'S Law
Outer ear
Rods
Visual Acuity
37. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Autokinetic effect
Absolute threshold
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
The visual pathway
38. Why do cones see better than rods?
E.H. Weber
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Photopigments
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
39. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Visual Pathway
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Weber'S Law
40. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Fovea
Receptive Field
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
False alarm
41. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Ponzo Illusion
Optic Chasm
Vision
Cornea
42. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Optic Chasm
Cones
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Photopigments
43. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Minimum principle
Visual Pathway
Photopigments
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
44. 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
Cones
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Moon Illusion
Inner ear
45. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Visual Pathway
Optic Array
The visual pathway
McCollough Effect
46. 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.
Light
Linear perspective
Differential Threshold
Visual Pathway
47. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Timbre
Hit
Middle ear
Ciliary Muscles
48. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Visual Acuity
Miss
Sensation
Reception
49. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Receptive Field
Ponzo Illusion
Ganglion cells
Color constancy
50. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Robert Frantz
binoculary disparity
Receiver operating characteristic
Middle ear