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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Sensation
Middle ear
2. 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.
Closure
Visual Cliff
Prosopagnosia
Differential Threshold
3. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Optic Chasm
The visual pathway
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
3 steps involving sensation
4. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Receptor Cells
Optic Chasm
Constancy
Timbre
5. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Fechner'S Law
Hit
Outer ear
Cones
6. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Robert Frantz
binoculary disparity
Continuation
Pragnanz
7. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Inner ear
E.H. Weber
Response Bias
Cornea
8. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Current thinking about sensation and perception
motion parallax
Visual Pathway
Structuralist Theory
9. Is the inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
3 steps involving sensation
Photopigments
Minimum principle
10. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Lateral Inhibition
Visual Acuity
Rods
Mental set
11. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Response Bias
Impossible Objects
Continuation
interposition
12. Located by the cornea
Lens
Size Constancy
Sensation
Miss
13. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Figure and ground relationship
James Gibson
Correct Rejection
Gestat Ideas
14. 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.
James Gibson
Gestalt Psychology
After light passes through receptors
Gestat Ideas
15. 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
Dark adaptation
Color constancy
Purkinje shift
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
16. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Optic Chasm
Structuralist Theory
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
17. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Muller-Lyer Illusion
3 steps involving sensation
apparent size
Moon Illusion
18. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
False alarm
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Visual Field
Ciliary Muscles
19. 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.
Autokinetic effect
Lateral Inhibition
Ewald Hering
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
20. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Terminal Threshold
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Visual Field
21. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
The visual pathway
Ciliary Muscles
Structuralist Theory
Terminal Threshold
22. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Lens
False alarm
Visual Field
Figure and ground relationship
23. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Fechner'S Law
Weber'S Law
Optic Array
Visual Acuity
24. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
3 steps involving sensation
apparent size
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Photopigments
25. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Receiver operating characteristic
Neural Pathways
texture gradient
Current thinking about sensation and perception
26. 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.
3 steps involving sensation
Moon Illusion
Constancy
Perception
27. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Size Constancy
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Lateral Inhibition
Current thinking about sensation and perception
28. 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
Constancy
Prosopagnosia
Phi Phenomenon
E.H. Weber
29. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Perception
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Proximity
30. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Prosopagnosia
Moon Illusion
Cornea
Terminal Threshold
31. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Weber'S Law
Ewald Hering
After light passes through receptors
Absolute threshold
32. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Visual Field
Middle ear
Continuation
Light
33. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
motion parallax
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Photopigments
Correct Rejection
34. 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
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Ciliary Muscles
Autokinetic effect
Muller-Lyer Illusion
35. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
Weber'S Law
Visual Pathway
Closure
36. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
Depth perception
Nativist Theory
Weber'S Law
Color constancy
37. 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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38. 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
Receptive Field
Miss
Size Constancy
McCollough Effect
39. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Purkinje shift
Reception
Phi Phenomenon
Outer ear
40. 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
Response Bias
Receptor Cells
Closure
41. 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.
Outer ear
Visual Pathway
Optic Chasm
Ponzo Illusion
42. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Closure
Hit
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Mental set
43. 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
Receptive Field
Neural Pathways
Receiver operating characteristic
Inner ear
44. The physical intensity of light
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Receptive Field
Light
Brightness
45. Why do cones see better than rods?
Perceptual Development
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Perception
Hue
46. 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.
Visual Field
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Visual Pathway
Moon Illusion
47. Best at seeing fine details
Ponzo Illusion
Visual Acuity
Ewald Hering
James Gibson
48. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Ponzo Illusion
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Perception
Structuralist Theory
49. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Timbre
Sensation
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Depth perception
50. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Autokinetic effect
Cornea
motion parallax
Prosopagnosia