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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Cornea
binoculary disparity
2. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Receptive Field
Cornea
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
James Gibson
3. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.
Dark adaptation
3 steps involving sensation
Perceptual Development
Neural Pathways
4. 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.
Hue
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Linear perspective
Moon Illusion
5. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Robert Frantz
Linear perspective
Gestalt Psychology
Current thinking about sensation and perception
6. 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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7. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Gestalt Psychology
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
James Gibson
After light passes through receptors
8. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Minimum principle
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
The visual pathway
Outer ear
9. 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
Middle ear
Lateral Inhibition
Mental set
Amplitude
10. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...
Fechner'S Law
motion parallax
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
11. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Weber'S Law
Optic Chasm
Ciliary Muscles
Retina
12. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Proximity
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Closure
Current thinking about sensation and perception
13. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
James Gibson
Weber'S Law
Miss
Optic Array
14. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Middle ear
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Minimum principle
Terminal Threshold
15. 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.
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Color constancy
Autokinetic effect
Depth perception
16. 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'
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Visual Cliff
Closure
Optic Array
17. Best at seeing fine details
binoculary disparity
Visual Acuity
Purkinje shift
Ciliary Muscles
18. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Ciliary Muscles
Ewald Hering
Response Bias
Linear perspective
19. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
3 steps involving sensation
Color constancy
Ciliary Muscles
The visual pathway
20. 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
James Gibson
Inner ear
Constancy
21. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Color constancy
Autokinetic effect
Light
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
22. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Response Bias
Middle ear
23. 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.
Optic Array
Gestalt Psychology
Hit
Constancy
24. 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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25. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Ponzo Illusion
Size Constancy
Fechner'S Law
Rods
26. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
Sensation
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Reception
27. 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
Neural Pathways
Rods
Ciliary Muscles
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
28. 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
Retina
Size Constancy
Phi Phenomenon
Visual Pathway
29. Has monocular and binocular cues
motion parallax
Weber'S Law
The visual pathway
Depth perception
30. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
3 steps involving sensation
Correct Rejection
Gestat Ideas
Phi Phenomenon
31. 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
Phi Phenomenon
Gestalt Psychology
Differential Threshold
Visual Acuity
32. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Gestat Ideas
Minimum principle
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Visual Pathway
33. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Closure
interposition
Ponzo Illusion
Receptive Field
34. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Visual Acuity
After light passes through receptors
Purkinje shift
35. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Miss
After light passes through receptors
apparent size
Brightness
36. 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
Absolute threshold
Inner ear
Optic Array
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
37. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Hit
Vision
Prosopagnosia
Robert Frantz
38. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Amplitude
Continuation
Gestalt Psychology
False alarm
39. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
The visual pathway
Closure
Sensation
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
Hue
Nativist Theory
interposition
41. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Ponzo Illusion
Response Bias
Hue
Dark adaptation
42. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
Moon Illusion
Perception
3 steps involving sensation
Autokinetic effect
43. Is the inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
Optic Array
James Gibson
Perceptual Development
44. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Optic Chasm
Autokinetic effect
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
45. Is the tendency to create a whole or detailed figure based on our expectations rather than what is seen
Continuation
Frequency
Middle ear
The visual pathway
46. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Cornea
Moon Illusion
After light passes through receptors
Size Constancy
47. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Phi Phenomenon
Weber'S Law
Robert Frantz
Receptive Field
48. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
McCollough Effect
Neural Pathways
Visual Field
The visual pathway
49. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Cones
Frequency
Sensation
50. 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.
Pragnanz
Closure
texture gradient
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
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