Test your basic knowledge |

GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation

Subjects : gre, psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful - symmetrical - and simple whenever possible.






2. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...






3. Suggests that subjects detect stimuli not only because they can but also because they want to. TSD factors motivation into the picture.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


4. Refers to the relationship between the meaningful part of a picture and the background






5. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate






6. Famous for the theory of color blindness






7. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward






8. The physical intensity of light






9. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths






10. Can be perceived as two different things depending on how you look at them






11. 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.






12. 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






13. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.






14. 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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


15. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina






16. 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






17. Knowing that an elephant is large no matter how it might appear






18. 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






19. 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.






20. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive






21. Proposed the opponent color/process theory






22. Correctly sensing a stimulus






23. It travels through the horizontal cells to the bipolar cells to the amacrine cells. Finally the information heads to the ganglion cells.






24. Asserts that perception and cognition are largely innate






25. Refers to how we see texture or fine detail differently from different distances






26. Defined the Just Noticeable Difference






27. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light






33. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle






34. Is gained by features we are familiar with - such as two seemingly parallel lines that converge with distance






35. Is the minimum amount of stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time






36. 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.






37. Is the upper limit above which the stimuli can no longer be perceived. -The highest pitch sound a human could hear






38. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures






39. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction






40. Has been explained as the increasing ability of a child to make finer discriminations among stimuli.






41. Takes place when receptors for a particular sense detect a stimulus.






42. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.






43. 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






44. After the optic chasm - information travels to the...






45. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual






46. Or overlap of objects shows which objects are closer






47. Rightly stating that no stimulus exists






48. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays






49. Says that the strength of a stimulus must be significantly increased to produce a slight difference in sensation

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


50. How we organize or experience sensations