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Ch 2 Flashcards

1
Q

Color

A

Amplitude and frequency of light waves

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2
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Waveforms of Color

A

High Frequency blue, high pitched

Low frequency= red, low pitched

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3
Q

Iris

A

Pigmented muscles

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4
Q

Lens

A

bends the light for focus

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5
Q

Cilary Muscles

A

pulls on lens

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6
Q

Retina

A

Rods and Cones (colo)

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7
Q

Fovea

A

clearest color image

highest rods in periphery

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8
Q

Optic Nerve

A

axons of ganglion cells

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9
Q

Amorim Cells/Bipolar Cells

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switches on/off for registering a color

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10
Q

Opponent Process Theory

A

not getting color still sends signal

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11
Q

Optic Chiasim

A

In Corpus Collosum

Right visual field goes to left side brain

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12
Q

Later Geniculate Nucleus (LGN)

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Sorts Color

Layers of an onion

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13
Q

Striate Cortex

A

layered part of occipital cortex

“coin sorter” for light to brain

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14
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Parts of occipital cortex

A

V1 primary sorter

V4 color sorter

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15
Q

Fusiform gurus

A

Social sorting

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16
Q

Achromatopsia

A

Can’t perceive color

17
Q

Prosoma gnosis

A

Can’t perceive faces

18
Q

Superposition

A

If something blocks another it’s closer

19
Q

Speed of movement

A

Closer they are more apparent movement

20
Q

Aerial perspective

A

Air between objects cause color change (bluish)

21
Q

Vertical distance

A

Relation of something to horizon for distance

22
Q

Hearing

A

Fluid changes in a fluid medium

23
Q

How is hearing a sense of touch

A

Mechanoreceptors work by mechanically popping a drain plug that allows neurons to perceive

24
Q

Pinna

A

Outside of air

A funnel for sound and sound location

25
Q

Ear drum

A

Flap of skin attach to osciles

26
Q

3 bones of inner ear

A

Hammer anvil and stirrup

27
Q

Cochlea

A

Has spinal fluid inside

Pressure changes in cochlea when push oval window

28
Q

Auditory nerve

A

Twisted bundles of axons connected to hair cells

29
Q

Place theory

A

Herman Von helmholtz
Mapped out frequency areas of cochlea
Higher frequencies on outside

30
Q

Location for sound

A

Time delay between ears

31
Q

Olfactory system

A

Molecules soaked into dendrites

Take proteins out of air

32
Q

Olfactory bulb

A

Goes through amygdala- vestigial

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