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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Neural Pathways
Cornea
Dark adaptation
Sensation
2. How we organize or experience sensations
Timbre
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Perception
Reception
3. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
Miss
Visual Pathway
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Current thinking about sensation and perception
4. 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
Ganglion cells
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Miss
McCollough Effect
5. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
False alarm
Amplitude
Receptive Field
Timbre
6. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.
Color constancy
Absolute threshold
Weber'S Law
Pragnanz
7. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Hit
Weber'S Law
Amplitude
Cones
8. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Receiver operating characteristic
Visual Cliff
Lens
9. humans best hear at
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Differential Threshold
Light
1000hz
10. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Cones
Symmetry
Optic Array
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
11. 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
Symmetry
Sensation
Rods
Proximity
12. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
Ciliary Muscles
Minimum principle
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Reception
13. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Autokinetic effect
Timbre
James Gibson
Fechner'S Law
14. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them
After light passes through receptors
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
E.H. Weber
Structuralist Theory
15. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Receptive Field
Timbre
Visual Field
Optic Chasm
16. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance
Linear perspective
Proximity
Amplitude
James Gibson
17. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Fovea
The visual pathway
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Pragnanz
18. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Optic Array
Ewald Hering
Photopigments
binoculary disparity
19. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Brightness
Optic Array
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
James Gibson
20. Located by the cornea
Weber'S Law
Lens
Receiver operating characteristic
Light
21. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Terminal Threshold
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Gestat Ideas
Perception
22. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Fechner'S Law
Neural Pathways
Linear perspective
Visual Field
23. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
James Gibson
texture gradient
Terminal Threshold
Autokinetic effect
24. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
interposition
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Outer ear
25. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Reception
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Optic Chasm
Constancy
26. Is the inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
Color constancy
Purkinje shift
Gestat Ideas
27. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Correct Rejection
Miss
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Ewald Hering
28. 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'
Response Bias
Color constancy
Fechner'S Law
Visual Cliff
29. 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
Gestalt Psychology
Closure
interposition
30. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
After light passes through receptors
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Absolute threshold
Muller-Lyer Illusion
31. Has monocular and binocular cues
texture gradient
Proximity
Cornea
Depth perception
32. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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33. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Light
Proximity
Absolute threshold
Brightness
34. 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.
Receiver operating characteristic
Differential Threshold
Reception
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
35. 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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36. 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.
Outer ear
Vision
Gestalt Psychology
Lateral Inhibition
37. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Dark adaptation
Inner ear
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Vision
38. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
Gestalt Psychology
False alarm
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
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.
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Outer ear
Perceptual Development
Continuation
40. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Linear perspective
Weber'S Law
Miss
James Gibson
41. 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
Minimum principle
Lateral Inhibition
Impossible Objects
Muller-Lyer Illusion
42. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Vision
3 steps involving sensation
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Gestalt Psychology
43. 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
Photopigments
Phi Phenomenon
Minimum principle
Size Constancy
44. 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.
Optic Chasm
texture gradient
Weber'S Law
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
45. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Amplitude
Sensation
Receptor Cells
Ewald Hering
46. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Receiver operating characteristic
Vision
Frequency
Moon Illusion
47. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Cornea
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Optic Array
Robert Frantz
48. Is knowing the color of an object even with tinted glasses on
Color constancy
Fechner'S Law
Structuralist Theory
Visual Pathway
49. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Photopigments
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Purkinje shift
Fechner'S Law
50. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
The visual pathway
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Response Bias
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex