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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. 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
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Phi Phenomenon
apparent size
2. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear
Size Constancy
Impossible Objects
Amplitude
Brightness
3. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Gestat Ideas
Minimum principle
binoculary disparity
4. 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.
Visual Cliff
Mental set
Lateral Inhibition
Moon Illusion
5. Best at seeing fine details
Moon Illusion
Autokinetic effect
Visual Acuity
Fovea
6. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Differential Threshold
Response Bias
Lens
Gestat Ideas
7. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
apparent size
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Hue
Neural Pathways
8. humans best hear at
Lateral Inhibition
Lens
1000hz
McCollough Effect
9. 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
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Ciliary Muscles
Muller-Lyer Illusion
3 steps involving sensation
10. Curces are graphical representations of a subject'S sensitivity to a stimulus
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Absolute threshold
Receiver operating characteristic
Proximity
11. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Timbre
Ponzo Illusion
Fovea
Vision
12. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.
Timbre
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Dark adaptation
Reception
13. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Dark adaptation
McCollough Effect
Closure
Middle ear
14. 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.
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Photopigments
After light passes through receptors
Constancy
15. 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
Purkinje shift
binoculary disparity
Proximity
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
16. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Gestalt Psychology
Neural Pathways
Figure and ground relationship
17. 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
Amplitude
interposition
Rods
18. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation
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19. 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
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Amplitude
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Retina
20. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Optic Chasm
Continuation
Middle ear
Frequency
21. Is the tendency to make figures out of symmetrical images
Symmetry
Gestat Ideas
James Gibson
binoculary disparity
22. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Absolute threshold
Cornea
Photopigments
Receptor Cells
23. Failing to detect a present stimulus
Structuralist Theory
Minimum principle
Miss
Prosopagnosia
24. Correctly sensing a stimulus
Brightness
Impossible Objects
Hit
McCollough Effect
25. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Rods
Fechner'S Law
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Amplitude
26. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Absolute threshold
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
texture gradient
The visual pathway
27. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
James Gibson
Outer ear
Mental set
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
28. Located by the cornea
Absolute threshold
Fechner'S Law
Lens
Neural Pathways
29. 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
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
Closure
Robert Frantz
Rods
30. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Minimum principle
Color constancy
After light passes through receptors
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
E.H. Weber
Differential Threshold
Ewald Hering
32. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference
Light
Visual Pathway
E.H. Weber
Middle ear
33. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists
Outer ear
The visual pathway
Correct Rejection
interposition
34. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Visual Field
E.H. Weber
Robert Frantz
Structuralist Theory
35. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances
texture gradient
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Receptive Field
Minimum principle
36. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Dark adaptation
E.H. Weber
Sensation
3 steps involving sensation
37. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Brightness
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Purkinje shift
Closure
38. How we organize or experience sensations
Structuralist Theory
Frequency
Autokinetic effect
Perception
39. Rods and cones on the retina that are responsible for sensory transduction.
Brightness
Size Constancy
Receptor Cells
Closure
40. Suggests that there are three types of receptors in the retina: cones that respond to red - blue - or green
After light passes through receptors
Tri-color Theory (component theory)
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Robert Frantz
41. 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
Nativist Theory
Lateral Inhibition
Inner ear
Response Bias
42. 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)
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Ponzo Illusion
Fovea
43. 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
Visual Pathway
Lateral Inhibition
Middle ear
3 steps involving sensation
44. Along the visual pathway is the...
Gestalt Psychology
Optic Chasm
Middle ear
Outer ear
45. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Photopigments
Symmetry
Optic Chasm
Amplitude
46. 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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47. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear
Terminal Threshold
Middle ear
Vision
Prosopagnosia
48. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
Hue
Robert Frantz
Correct Rejection
49. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Response Bias
apparent size
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Nativist Theory
50. 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
Frequency
Brightness
Gestalt Psychology
Muller-Lyer Illusion
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