AP PSYCHOLOGY: vision Flashcards
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| 7764379542 | Cornea | Clear, protective outer layer of the eye that bends light |  | 0 |
| 7764379543 | Rods | Retinal receptors that detect motion, black, white, & gray and can function in dim light |  | 1 |
| 7764379545 | Optic nerve | Nerve that carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain; you are literally blind in this area |  | 2 |
| 7764379547 | Retina | Inner surface containing receptor cells(rods & cones); area of transduction |  | 3 |
| 7764379548 | Cones | Retinal receptors near center of the retina & that function in daylight or well-lit conditions. Detect fine detail and color |  | 4 |
| 7764379549 | Opponent Processing Theory | Opposing retinal processes (red-green, yellow-blue, white-black) enable color vision; some cells stimulated by green & inhibited by red |  | 5 |
| 7764379550 | Bipolar Cells | collect information from rods and cones and take them to the ganglion cells | 6 | |
| 7764379551 | Fovea | Central focal point in the retina, cones cluster around its and therefore it has the sharpest vision |  | 7 |
| 7764379552 | Feature Detectors | Nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shapes, angle, or movement |  | 8 |
| 7764379556 | Transduction | Conversion of one form of energy to another; our eyes need to TRANSDUCE light into neural messages in order for us to see | 9 | |
| 7764379557 | Electromagnetic spectrum | We only see a SMALL portion of electromagnetic spectrum |  | 10 |
| 7764379558 | Wavelength | Determines hue: the colors we see(blue, red, green) | | 11 |
| 7764379559 | Amplitude/Intensity | Determines brightness |  | 12 |
| 7764379560 | Visual Pathway to the Brain | Rods & Cones Bipolar Cells Ganglion Cells Optic Nerve Thalamus Occipital Lobe(visual cortex) |  | 13 |
| 7764379561 | Occipital Lobe | Holds feature detector cells that respond to specific features of stimulus(shape, angle, movement); region of the brain dedicated to vision |  | 14 |
| 7764379563 | Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory | Retina has 3 types of color(cone) receptors: red, blue, green Colorblind are missing 1 or 2 types of receptor cells | 15 | |
| 7764379564 | Afterimages | Phenomenon of after images gave light to Opponent Processing Theory(yellow-blue circles) |  | 16 |