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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation

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1. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time






2. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen






3. 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.






4. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.






5. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron






6. Along the visual pathway is the...






7. 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.






8. 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






9. Failing to detect a present stimulus






10. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there






11. 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






12. 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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13. 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






14. 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






15. Has monocular and binocular cues






16. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction






17. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear






18. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...






19. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive






20. Factors into why we see what we expect to see






21. 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'






22. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances






23. Located in the back of the eye - receives light images from the lens. It is composed of about 30 million photoreceptor cells and of other cell layers that process information






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.






25. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.






26. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array






27. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths






28. Famous for the theory of color blindness






29. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light






30. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness






31. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz






32. 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






33. Proposed the opponent color/process theory






34. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways






35. 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.






36. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity






37. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.






38. 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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39. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment






40. How we organize or experience sensations






41. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance






42. 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.






43. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation

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44. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see






45. We see objects because of the light they reflect






46. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave






47. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be






48. The optic nerve is made up of...






49. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.






50. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images







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