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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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
Rods
Vision
Purkinje shift
Visual Pathway
2. 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
Inner ear
False alarm
Gestat Ideas
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
3. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Fechner'S Law
Linear perspective
Robert Frantz
4. 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.
Terminal Threshold
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Color constancy
Constancy
5. 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.
Pragnanz
motion parallax
Linear perspective
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
6. Objects that have been drawn and can be perceived but are geometrically impossible
Impossible Objects
Pragnanz
James Gibson
Absolute threshold
7. 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.
Outer ear
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Color constancy
Moon Illusion
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
Visual Cliff
Retina
Autokinetic effect
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
9. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Dark adaptation
The visual pathway
Hue
Vision
10. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Visual Cliff
Sensation
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Current thinking about sensation and perception
11. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Ewald Hering
Optic Array
Ponzo Illusion
After light passes through receptors
12. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Terminal Threshold
Visual Cliff
Receptor Cells
Hit
13. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Size Constancy
Photopigments
Figure and ground relationship
apparent size
14. 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.
Symmetry
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Gestalt Psychology
Color constancy
15. We see objects because of the light they reflect
Retina
Vision
Visual Field
Cones
16. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Sensation
Ponzo Illusion
Optic Chasm
Perceptual Development
17. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Receptive Field
Hit
E.H. Weber
Lens
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
Brightness
Phi Phenomenon
Linear perspective
Optic Array
19. 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
Mental set
1000hz
Amplitude
binoculary disparity
20. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Size Constancy
Visual Acuity
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
21. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Hue
1000hz
Optic Chasm
22. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Amplitude
Frequency
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Gestat Ideas
23. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
Phi Phenomenon
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Visual Cliff
Amplitude
24. Comes from the complexity of the sound wave
Ewald Hering
Timbre
Depth perception
Perception
25. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
Visual Acuity
texture gradient
Lateral Inhibition
Gestalt Psychology
26. 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.
Rods
Differential Threshold
Light
Lateral Inhibition
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
Rods
interposition
Ciliary Muscles
False alarm
28. 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.
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
Differential Threshold
After light passes through receptors
Proximity
29. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Perception
Miss
Closure
Impossible Objects
30. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Visual Acuity
Reception
Lens
The visual pathway
31. Consists of the parts you see called the pinna and the auditory canal. Vibrations from sound move down this canal to the middle ear.
Outer ear
Visual Field
Mental set
Linear perspective
32. 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
Visual Pathway
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
33. Factors into why we see what we expect to see
Mental set
Differential Threshold
Inner ear
Closure
34. humans best hear at
1000hz
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
3 steps involving sensation
binoculary disparity
35. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
Ciliary Muscles
Gestalt Psychology
Perception
Retina
36. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Sensation
McCollough Effect
Linear perspective
Autokinetic effect
37. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Purkinje shift
Structuralist Theory
Light
Depth perception
38. Has monocular and binocular cues
Lens
Neural Pathways
Depth perception
Ciliary Muscles
39. Best at seeing fine details
Retina
interposition
Visual Acuity
Reception
40. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Symmetry
Proximity
Hermann Von Hemholtz
41. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
Constancy
Optic Array
apparent size
Fovea
42. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Robert Frantz
Visual Field
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
McCollough Effect
43. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Symmetry
Lateral Inhibition
Cornea
Rods
44. 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
McCollough Effect
Ponzo Illusion
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Sensation
45. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer
Purkinje shift
interposition
Size Constancy
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
46. Famous for the theory of color blindness
Figure and ground relationship
Color constancy
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Fovea
47. 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.
McCollough Effect
Pragnanz
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
48. Correctly sensing a stimulus
False alarm
Weber'S Law
Hit
apparent size
49. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Moon Illusion
Hue
50. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Lens
Weber'S Law
Fovea
Figure and ground relationship