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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Amplitude
Neural Pathways
Structuralist Theory
Optic Array
2. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Visual Acuity
Response Bias
Visual Cliff
Symmetry
3. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Visual Cliff
Mental set
Visual Pathway
Moon Illusion
4. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Miss
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Gestat Ideas
Hit
5. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Symmetry
3 steps involving sensation
Weber'S Law
Visual Pathway
6. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Fechner'S Law
Brightness
3 steps involving sensation
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
7. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Amplitude
Optic Array
Symmetry
Terminal Threshold
8. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Impossible Objects
Photopigments
Hermann Von Hemholtz
After light passes through receptors
9. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Continuation
Color constancy
Vision
Impossible Objects
10. Along the visual pathway is the...
Visual Field
False alarm
apparent size
Optic Chasm
11. The optic nerve is made up of...
Optic Chasm
Ganglion cells
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Hermann Von Hemholtz
12. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Photopigments
Neural Pathways
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
13. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Optic Chasm
Amplitude
Receptive Field
Miss
14. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ewald Hering
Ponzo Illusion
Terminal Threshold
Retina
15. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Vision
After light passes through receptors
Reception
Receiver operating characteristic
16. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Pragnanz
Phi Phenomenon
apparent size
Fechner'S Law
17. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Hue
Visual Pathway
Size Constancy
Receiver operating characteristic
18. 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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19. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Linear perspective
Amplitude
Dark adaptation
Optic Chasm
20. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Amplitude
E.H. Weber
Closure
Hue
21. Located by the cornea
Lens
Phi Phenomenon
Color constancy
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
22. 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.
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Gestalt Psychology
Optic Chasm
texture gradient
23. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Continuation
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Absolute threshold
Ponzo Illusion
24. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Cornea
Weber'S Law
texture gradient
25. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Absolute threshold
Closure
Reception
Dark adaptation
26. How we organize or experience sensations
Hit
The visual pathway
Hue
Perception
27. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
False alarm
Ciliary Muscles
Timbre
Autokinetic effect
28. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
motion parallax
Visual Pathway
Optic Chasm
Ponzo Illusion
29. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
McCollough Effect
Perceptual Development
Figure and ground relationship
The visual pathway
30. 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
3 steps involving sensation
Prosopagnosia
Color constancy
Autokinetic effect
31. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Purkinje shift
Fovea
Cones
Phi Phenomenon
32. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Timbre
Impossible Objects
3 steps involving sensation
Outer ear
33. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Optic Chasm
Continuation
Receptive Field
Current thinking about sensation and perception
34. The physical intensity of light
E.H. Weber
Absolute threshold
Pragnanz
Brightness
35. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Mental set
interposition
Timbre
36. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Moon Illusion
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Visual Pathway
3 steps involving sensation
37. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Optic Chasm
Hue
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Nativist Theory
38. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Miss
Rods
Neural Pathways
texture gradient
39. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Nativist Theory
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Perception
Figure and ground relationship
40. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Robert Frantz
Cornea
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Photopigments
41. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Receptor Cells
Inner ear
Continuation
Gestat Ideas
42. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Ewald Hering
Absolute threshold
Timbre
43. 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
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Brightness
Optic Chasm
apparent size
44. 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.
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Minimum principle
Depth perception
Pragnanz
45. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Miss
Impossible Objects
Gestat Ideas
Visual Pathway
46. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Ciliary Muscles
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Hit
Vision
47. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Response Bias
Gestat Ideas
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Differential Threshold
48. 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
Hermann Von Hemholtz
motion parallax
1000hz
49. 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
Structuralist Theory
Neural Pathways
False alarm
50. 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.
Constancy
Retina
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Lens