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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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
Visual Cliff
Autokinetic effect
Amplitude
Structuralist Theory
2. 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.
Pragnanz
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Perception
Closure
3. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Cornea
Timbre
Response Bias
Sensation
4. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
3 steps involving sensation
Purkinje shift
Receptor Cells
5. Located by the cornea
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Lens
After light passes through receptors
6. 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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7. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
E.H. Weber
Light
Timbre
Robert Frantz
8. 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.
The visual pathway
Continuation
Receptive Field
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
9. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Miss
Absolute threshold
McCollough Effect
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
10. 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
Hue
Terminal Threshold
Pragnanz
Retina
11. 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.
Visual Field
Ewald Hering
Gestalt Psychology
3 steps involving sensation
12. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
1000hz
Outer ear
Ciliary Muscles
Visual Pathway
13. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Timbre
Hit
McCollough Effect
Current thinking about sensation and perception
14. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Perceptual Development
After light passes through receptors
Proximity
Rods
15. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Differential Threshold
Minimum principle
Impossible Objects
3 steps involving sensation
16. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Frequency
motion parallax
Current thinking about sensation and perception
17. How we organize or experience sensations
Continuation
Perception
Hit
Response Bias
18. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Continuation
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
texture gradient
Muller-Lyer Illusion
19. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
False alarm
Continuation
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Lens
20. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
James Gibson
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Absolute threshold
Middle ear
21. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
E.H. Weber
The visual pathway
Visual Cliff
Miss
22. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Proximity
Frequency
Gestat Ideas
Visual Field
23. Allows the eyes to see contrast and prevents repetitive information from being sent to the brain. Once the receptor cell is stimulated - the others nearby are inhibited.
Timbre
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Lateral Inhibition
Prosopagnosia
24. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Constancy
Symmetry
Correct Rejection
Hermann Von Hemholtz
25. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Symmetry
Proximity
Terminal Threshold
Phi Phenomenon
26. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Outer ear
binoculary disparity
Autokinetic effect
apparent size
27. 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.
Rods
motion parallax
Hit
Absolute threshold
28. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Ganglion cells
Receptive Field
Response Bias
texture gradient
29. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Impossible Objects
Gestat Ideas
texture gradient
Cones
30. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Minimum principle
Ciliary Muscles
Mental set
Nativist Theory
31. 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
Rods
Moon Illusion
Differential Threshold
Prosopagnosia
32. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Dark adaptation
Sensation
Current thinking about sensation and perception
E.H. Weber
33. 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
McCollough Effect
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Autokinetic effect
The visual pathway
34. 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
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Color constancy
Visual Cliff
35. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Inner ear
Pragnanz
Visual Acuity
Reception
36. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Amplitude
Size Constancy
Perception
37. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
3 steps involving sensation
Hit
Ponzo Illusion
Robert Frantz
38. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
After light passes through receptors
Neural Pathways
Structuralist Theory
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
39. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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40. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Color constancy
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
41. The physical intensity of light
Brightness
Receptor Cells
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Visual Pathway
42. 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
Miss
Inner ear
Ponzo Illusion
Visual Cliff
43. 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.
Ganglion cells
Constancy
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Optic Array
44. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Optic Array
interposition
Size Constancy
Timbre
45. The optic nerve is made up of...
Structuralist Theory
Ganglion cells
Vision
Weber'S Law
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.
Sensation
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Weber'S Law
Moon Illusion
47. Where half of all fibers from the optic nerve of each eye cross over and join the optic nerve from the other eye. This insures input from each eye will be put together in a full picture in the brain.
Optic Chasm
Light
Ciliary Muscles
Retina
48. Why do cones see better than rods?
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Linear perspective
The visual pathway
49. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
motion parallax
Terminal Threshold
1000hz
Current thinking about sensation and perception
50. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Frequency
Cornea
interposition
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
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