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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is the inability to recognize faces
interposition
Prosopagnosia
Ganglion cells
Nativist Theory
2. Best at seeing fine details
Visual Acuity
Light
Closure
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
3. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Visual Cliff
Mental set
James Gibson
4. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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5. 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
Autokinetic effect
Receptive Field
binoculary disparity
Visual Cliff
6. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Amplitude
Prosopagnosia
Vision
7. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Size Constancy
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Ciliary Muscles
Figure and ground relationship
8. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Gestat Ideas
Reception
Ewald Hering
9. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Ganglion cells
Proximity
Color constancy
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
10. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Miss
Purkinje shift
apparent size
11. Located by the cornea
Lens
Size Constancy
Dark adaptation
Moon Illusion
12. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Ganglion cells
Receptive Field
texture gradient
False alarm
13. 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
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Cones
Amplitude
Depth perception
14. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Optic Chasm
Robert Frantz
Mental set
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
15. 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.
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Gestalt Psychology
Frequency
Absolute threshold
16. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Weber'S Law
Visual Cliff
After light passes through receptors
Vision
17. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Dark adaptation
Timbre
Hermann Von Hemholtz
18. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Impossible Objects
3 steps involving sensation
Size Constancy
Hit
19. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Gestalt Psychology
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Response Bias
Fovea
20. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Ponzo Illusion
Weber'S Law
Receptive Field
Optic Chasm
21. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Receiver operating characteristic
Receptor Cells
3 steps involving sensation
Absolute threshold
22. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Sensation
E.H. Weber
Cornea
Gestalt Psychology
23. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Impossible Objects
Retina
Prosopagnosia
Receptive Field
24. 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.
Terminal Threshold
Differential Threshold
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Gestat Ideas
25. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
interposition
Gestat Ideas
Pragnanz
Rods
26. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Hue
apparent size
Receiver operating characteristic
Structuralist Theory
27. 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
Visual Cliff
Proximity
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
28. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Receptor Cells
James Gibson
3 steps involving sensation
Symmetry
29. The physical intensity of light
Moon Illusion
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Perception
Brightness
30. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Receptor Cells
Neural Pathways
31. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Impossible Objects
Light
Minimum principle
Rods
32. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Robert Frantz
Visual Pathway
33. 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.
Retina
James Gibson
Timbre
Lateral Inhibition
34. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Visual Field
McCollough Effect
Color constancy
Absolute threshold
35. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
False alarm
Optic Chasm
McCollough Effect
Muller-Lyer Illusion
36. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Receiver operating characteristic
Amplitude
Hue
Perceptual Development
37. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Receptive Field
Fovea
Outer ear
Absolute threshold
38. 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
binoculary disparity
apparent size
Autokinetic effect
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
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.
E.H. Weber
Correct Rejection
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
40. How we organize or experience sensations
Visual Pathway
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Ponzo Illusion
Perception
41. 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'
Hermann Von Hemholtz
After light passes through receptors
Visual Cliff
Timbre
42. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
James Gibson
Figure and ground relationship
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Frequency
43. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Optic Array
Cones
Retina
Nativist Theory
44. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Differential Threshold
Receptor Cells
Amplitude
False alarm
45. Why do cones see better than rods?
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Light
Proximity
Visual Cliff
46. 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
Response Bias
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Visual Cliff
47. 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.
Hue
Constancy
motion parallax
binoculary disparity
48. 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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49. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Neural Pathways
Robert Frantz
Size Constancy
Amplitude
50. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Gestat Ideas
motion parallax
Optic Chasm
Muller-Lyer Illusion