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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
3 steps involving sensation
Optic Chasm
Hit
Ponzo Illusion
2. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Size Constancy
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Pragnanz
Receptor Cells
3. 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'
Visual Cliff
Pragnanz
Absolute threshold
E.H. Weber
4. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
1000hz
After light passes through receptors
Optic Chasm
Visual Field
5. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Inner ear
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Weber'S Law
Reception
6. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Inner ear
Phi Phenomenon
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Amplitude
7. 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
The visual pathway
Moon Illusion
McCollough Effect
3 steps involving sensation
8. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Lateral Inhibition
Symmetry
Visual Acuity
Proximity
9. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Receptor Cells
Size Constancy
Linear perspective
Proximity
10. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Receiver operating characteristic
Visual Field
Light
Hue
11. 1. Reception 2. Sensory Transduction 3. Neural Pathways
3 steps involving sensation
Vision
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Ewald Hering
12. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Phi Phenomenon
Rods
Color constancy
Autokinetic effect
13. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
False alarm
Timbre
Fovea
14. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Impossible Objects
After light passes through receptors
False alarm
Differential Threshold
15. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Visual Pathway
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
McCollough Effect
Symmetry
16. Correctly sensing a stimulus
3 steps involving sensation
Neural Pathways
Visual Pathway
Hit
17. Is the inability to recognize faces
Visual Pathway
1000hz
Prosopagnosia
Dark adaptation
18. 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
Visual Cliff
Phi Phenomenon
Dark adaptation
Robert Frantz
19. 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
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Middle ear
Perception
Color constancy
20. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Correct Rejection
Sensation
Linear perspective
Ciliary Muscles
21. 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
Optic Chasm
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Gestalt Psychology
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
22. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Miss
Mental set
1000hz
23. The physical intensity of light
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Moon Illusion
Prosopagnosia
Brightness
24. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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25. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Figure and ground relationship
Closure
Ewald Hering
Hermann Von Hemholtz
26. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
E.H. Weber
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Reception
Optic Array
27. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
Ganglion cells
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Closure
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
28. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Prosopagnosia
Photopigments
Visual Cliff
Structuralist Theory
29. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Lateral Inhibition
Vision
Dark adaptation
Visual Field
30. 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
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Brightness
Timbre
31. Why do cones see better than rods?
False alarm
Fechner'S Law
Cornea
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
32. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Visual Field
Fechner'S Law
3 steps involving sensation
Vision
33. 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
Perception
Visual Pathway
binoculary disparity
James Gibson
34. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Miss
Optic Chasm
Frequency
Brightness
35. 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
Lens
Autokinetic effect
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Correct Rejection
36. Located by the cornea
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
binoculary disparity
Lens
Cones
37. The optic nerve is made up of...
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Purkinje shift
Minimum principle
Ganglion cells
38. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Hit
Fovea
Impossible Objects
Frequency
39. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Mental set
Photopigments
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
40. 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.
Amplitude
Lateral Inhibition
Receiver operating characteristic
Impossible Objects
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.
Brightness
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Optic Chasm
Closure
42. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Visual Cliff
Correct Rejection
43. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Structuralist Theory
Photopigments
Current thinking about sensation and perception
44. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Fovea
Miss
Visual Cliff
Impossible Objects
45. 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.
3 steps involving sensation
The visual pathway
Gestalt Psychology
McCollough Effect
46. Best at seeing fine details
Phi Phenomenon
interposition
Visual Acuity
Hermann Von Hemholtz
47. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Visual Field
Cornea
texture gradient
Muller-Lyer Illusion
48. 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
Rods
Hue
Visual Cliff
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
49. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Pragnanz
Visual Acuity
Minimum principle
Dark adaptation
50. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Neural Pathways
Ponzo Illusion
The visual pathway
Robert Frantz