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GRE Psychology: Perception Sensation
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1. Developed the visual cliff to study whether depth perception was innate
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Perception
Differential Threshold
Lens
2. Involves both innate/sensory and is partially learned/conceptual
Purkinje shift
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Autokinetic effect
texture gradient
3. Along the visual pathway is the...
Optic Chasm
Correct Rejection
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Visual Cliff
4. Is composed of photons and waves measured by brightness and wavelengths
Light
Gestat Ideas
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Ganglion cells
5. The chemical that aids the receptor cells in transduction
Photopigments
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Depth perception
Receptive Field
6. The clear protective coating on the outside of the eye
Figure-Ground Reversal Patterns (illusion)
Cornea
Receptor Cells
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
7. 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.
Sensation
Depth perception
interposition
Differential Threshold
8. The eyes are connected to the cerebral cortex by...
Optic Array
Autokinetic effect
The visual pathway
Rods
9. Is the result of regeneration of retinal pigment
Phi Phenomenon
Dark adaptation
Miss
Moon Illusion
10. Why do cones see better than rods?
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Differential Threshold
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Receptor Cells
11. The part of the world that triggers a particular neuron
Receptive Field
Pragnanz
1000hz
apparent size
12. Found that infants prefer relatively complex and sensational displays
Pragnanz
Phi Phenomenon
Robert Frantz
Cornea
13. 1. closure 2. Proximity 3. Continuation or good continuation 4. Symmetry 5. Constancy 6. Minimum principle
Visual Cliff
Terminal Threshold
Gestat Ideas
Response Bias
14. Is when two horizontal lines of equal length appear unequal because of two vertical lines that slant inward
Muller-Lyer Illusion
Weber'S Law
Hit
Ponzo Illusion
15. How we organize or experience sensations
Perception
Dark adaptation
Miss
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
16. 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
Reception
Color constancy
Visual Acuity
17. Electrical impulses travel down these to the brain - where the information is understood
Neural Pathways
Visual Pathway
Visual Acuity
Lens
18. The pace of vibrations or sound waves per second for a particular sound - determines pitch. Frequencies are measured in Hertz
Linear perspective
Ciliary Muscles
Purkinje shift
Frequency
19. Allow the cornea to bend (accommodate) in order to focus an image of the outside world onto the retina
False alarm
Frequency
Ciliary Muscles
Thomas Young and Hermann von Hemholtz
20. Are concentrated in the center of the retina. They are sensitive to color and daylight vision.
Lens
Cones
Gestat Ideas
Autokinetic effect
21. 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.
Gestalt Psychology
Purkinje shift
binoculary disparity
Moon Illusion
22. 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.
Lateral Inhibition
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
3 steps involving sensation
Timbre
23. 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
Terminal Threshold
After light passes through receptors
Muller-Lyer Illusion
J.A. Swet'S Theory of Single Detection (TSD)
24. 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
Vision
Purkinje shift
Optic Array
Constancy
25. Is the tendency to see what is easiest or logical to see
binoculary disparity
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
Ewald Hering
Minimum principle
26. Proposed the perceptual development and optic array
Ambiguous Figures (illusion)
Terminal Threshold
interposition
James Gibson
27. The physical intensity of light
Brightness
Hue
Optic Array
Response Bias
28. Famous for the theory of color blindness
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Cones
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Perception
29. Has monocular and binocular cues
Gestat Ideas
Depth perception
Amplitude
Striate cortex to the visual association areas of the cortex
30. 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
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31. Individuals are partly motivated by rewards and costs in detection. The interplay between response bias and stimulus intensity determines responses
Visual Pathway
Color constancy
Linear perspective
Response Bias
32. The feeling that results from physical stimulation
Sensation
Depth perception
Current thinking about sensation and perception
Brightness
33. 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
interposition
Inner ear
Ganglion cells
Fovea
34. 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
Cornea
Phi Phenomenon
Inner ear
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
35. The physical intensity of a sound wave largely determines loudness
Amplitude
False alarm
Absolute threshold
Reception
36. Asserts that perception is the sum total of sensory input. The world is understood through bottom-up processing
Perceptual Development
Size Constancy
Moon Illusion
Structuralist Theory
37. 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.
Ewald Hering
After light passes through receptors
Gestalt Psychology
Opponent Color or Opponent Process Theory
38. Consists of one optic nerve connection each eye to the brain.
There are fewer cones per ganglion cells
Perceptual Development
Visual Pathway
James Gibson
39. Proposed the opponent color/process theory
Nativist Theory
Receiver operating characteristic
Perceptual Development
Ewald Hering
40. Located by the cornea
Ponzo Illusion
Lens
After light passes through receptors
False alarm
41. Also known as color - is the dominant wavelength of light
Nativist Theory
Hue
Timbre
Response Bias
42. 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
Terminal Threshold
Dark adaptation
texture gradient
43. The center of the retina; has the greatest visual acuity
apparent size
Mental set
Brightness
Fovea
44. He tendency to group together items that are near each other
Terminal Threshold
Proximity
Continuation
texture gradient
45. Refers to the entire span that can be perceived or detected by the eye at a given moment.
Fechner'S Law
3 steps involving sensation
Cones
Visual Field
46. Gives us clues about how far away an object is if we know about how big the object should be
Rods
apparent size
Weber'S Law
Amplitude
47. All the things a person sees trains them to perceive
Terminal Threshold
Prosopagnosia
Optic Array
Nativist Theory
48. Saying you detect a stimulus that is not there
Pragnanz
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
Timbre
False alarm
49. Is the tendency to complete incomplete figures
Amplitude
Color constancy
Sensation
Closure
50. Is the inability to recognize faces
Robert Frantz
Pragnanz
Weber'S Law
Prosopagnosia