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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Along the visual pathway is the...
Inner ear
Middle ear
Response Bias
Optic Chasm
2. 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
Miss
binoculary disparity
Hue
3. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Lens
Visual Field
Proximity
Perceptual Development
4. The physical intensity of light
Brightness
Inner ear
Ponzo Illusion
James Gibson
5. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Size Constancy
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Sensation
Structuralist Theory
6. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Prosopagnosia
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Visual Pathway
Closure
7. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Constancy
Photopigments
Brightness
Impossible Objects
8. 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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9. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Symmetry
Light
The visual pathway
Visual Field
10. 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.
Hermann Von Hemholtz
After light passes through receptors
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Reception
11. 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
Lateral Inhibition
Color constancy
Structuralist Theory
12. The optic nerve is made up of...
Fechner'S Law
Ganglion cells
Symmetry
Gestalt Psychology
13. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Figure and ground relationship
Phi Phenomenon
Rods
Prosopagnosia
14. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Timbre
Color constancy
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
15. 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
Fechner'S Law
Middle ear
Autokinetic effect
Linear perspective
16. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Perceptual Development
Hue
After light passes through receptors
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
17. 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
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Reception
Receptor Cells
18. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Ewald Hering
Ciliary Muscles
Fovea
Hit
19. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Amplitude
Perceptual Development
interposition
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
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.
Perceptual Development
Linear perspective
Outer ear
Symmetry
21. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Outer ear
Linear perspective
Response Bias
Ewald Hering
22. 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.
interposition
Differential Threshold
The visual pathway
Correct Rejection
23. 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.
Linear perspective
motion parallax
Moon Illusion
Absolute threshold
24. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Dark adaptation
Gestalt Psychology
Correct Rejection
Ewald Hering
25. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Weber'S Law
Terminal Threshold
Amplitude
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
26. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Cones
Hue
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Vision
27. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Timbre
Color constancy
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Phi Phenomenon
28. 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
interposition
Fechner'S Law
McCollough Effect
Visual Pathway
29. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Proximity
Autokinetic effect
Light
30. 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.
Color constancy
Optic Chasm
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Inner ear
31. Is the inability to recognize faces
Lens
Weber'S Law
Moon Illusion
Prosopagnosia
32. The tendency to perceive a smooth motion. This explains why motion is perceived when there is none - often by the use of flashing lights or rapidly shown still-fram pictures - such as in the perception of cartoons. This is apparent motion
Linear perspective
Neural Pathways
Phi Phenomenon
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
33. Has monocular and binocular cues
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Depth perception
Minimum principle
Muller-Lyer Illusion
34. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Inner ear
3 steps involving sensation
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
35. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Symmetry
Ewald Hering
1000hz
Closure
36. 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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37. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
interposition
Perceptual Development
Frequency
Robert Frantz
38. Located by the cornea
Lens
Moon Illusion
Response Bias
Autokinetic effect
39. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Minimum principle
Prosopagnosia
Visual Acuity
interposition
40. Best at seeing fine details
Amplitude
Visual Acuity
Robert Frantz
Minimum principle
41. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Continuation
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Receptive Field
Structuralist Theory
42. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Moon Illusion
Receiver operating characteristic
False alarm
binoculary disparity
43. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Light
Ganglion cells
Miss
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
44. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Sensation
Visual Acuity
texture gradient
Rods
45. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
binoculary disparity
James Gibson
Vision
Color constancy
46. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Ciliary Muscles
Visual Field
Timbre
Vision
47. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Lateral Inhibition
Miss
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Ewald Hering
48. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Autokinetic effect
Light
Cornea
Cones
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
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Phi Phenomenon
binoculary disparity
Sensation
50. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Ponzo Illusion
Visual Cliff
Structuralist Theory
Impossible Objects
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