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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Neural Pathways
Gestat Ideas
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Optic Array
2. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Linear perspective
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Perceptual Development
Minimum principle
3. Is the inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
Ciliary Muscles
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
4. Along the visual pathway is the...
Vision
Optic Chasm
Lens
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
5. 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.
Moon Illusion
Perception
Ewald Hering
Impossible Objects
6. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate
interposition
Proximity
Purkinje shift
Nativist Theory
7. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
After light passes through receptors
Closure
Correct Rejection
Impossible Objects
8. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Pragnanz
Optic Chasm
Ciliary Muscles
Receptor Cells
9. The physical intensity of light
Figure and ground relationship
Autokinetic effect
Brightness
E.H. Weber
10. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Autokinetic effect
Size Constancy
Minimum principle
Ponzo Illusion
11. 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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12. 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
texture gradient
McCollough Effect
Robert Frantz
Continuation
13. humans best hear at
Perception
Minimum principle
Fechner'S Law
1000hz
14. Best at seeing fine details
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Impossible Objects
Weber'S Law
Visual Acuity
15. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
E.H. Weber
After light passes through receptors
Moon Illusion
Minimum principle
16. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Ponzo Illusion
texture gradient
Visual Pathway
17. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Vision
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Receiver operating characteristic
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
18. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Nativist Theory
E.H. Weber
Fovea
Hermann Von Hemholtz
19. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Brightness
Lateral Inhibition
Photopigments
Ciliary Muscles
20. 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.
Differential Threshold
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Receptive Field
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
21. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time
Reception
Absolute threshold
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Cones
22. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Perceptual Development
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Figure and ground relationship
False alarm
23. 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
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Linear perspective
Autokinetic effect
Cones
24. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Optic Array
Constancy
Robert Frantz
Phi Phenomenon
25. 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.
Nativist Theory
Phi Phenomenon
Outer ear
Lateral Inhibition
26. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Outer ear
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Light
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
27. 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
Moon Illusion
After light passes through receptors
Visual Acuity
28. 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.
Correct Rejection
Gestalt Psychology
Light
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
29. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
Structuralist Theory
Symmetry
Gestat Ideas
30. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Fechner'S Law
Nativist Theory
Optic Chasm
Structuralist Theory
31. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
The visual pathway
Rods
E.H. Weber
Response Bias
32. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Pragnanz
Visual Acuity
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
33. 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
Dark adaptation
Phi Phenomenon
Miss
Receptor Cells
34. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Terminal Threshold
Ewald Hering
Reception
Receiver operating characteristic
35. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Linear perspective
Continuation
Pragnanz
Optic Chasm
36. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Miss
binoculary disparity
Autokinetic effect
37. Why do cones see better than rods?
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Amplitude
Cornea
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
38. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Gestalt Psychology
Optic Chasm
James Gibson
Lateral Inhibition
39. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Receptive Field
Sensation
Figure and ground relationship
Color constancy
40. 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.
Frequency
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Differential Threshold
Pragnanz
41. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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42. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Nativist Theory
Optic Chasm
Linear perspective
Proximity
43. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Fovea
Receiver operating characteristic
Timbre
3 steps involving sensation
44. 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
Closure
Minimum principle
Amplitude
45. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Correct Rejection
Hit
Mental set
3 steps involving sensation
46. 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
Mental set
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
47. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Structuralist Theory
Weber'S Law
Cornea
48. Has monocular and binocular cues
Depth perception
Retina
Visual Pathway
binoculary disparity
49. The optic nerve is made up of...
Ganglion cells
apparent size
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Weber'S Law
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
Cones
Color constancy
Receptor Cells