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1
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What is the plot of the amount of light absorbed versus the wavelength of the light?

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Absorption spectrum

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A process of adjusting the shape and thickness of the lens. Done in order to produce sharp images even at different distances from the stimulus.

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Accommodation

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This denotes the signal which lasts about 1 millisecond w/c happens from resting potential at (-70 mV) –> (+40 mV) –> negative again –> resting potential again.

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Action potential

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Other than bipolar and ganglion cells, and receptors, what are the two types of neurons that connect neurons across the retina? (2)
Signals traveling between bipolar and ganglion cells use this.

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Amacrine cells

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Eyeball is too long; images of faraway objects are not focused sharply.

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Axial myopia

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_____ is filled with fluid that conducts electrical signals.

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Axon

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Where do signals generated in the receptors travel to first?

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Bipolar cells

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This is a spot where there are no receptors (receptors are missing).

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Blind spot

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This is the key component of neuron. This contains mechanisms to keep the cell alive.

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Cell body

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What do you call a curve that is produced when an observer looks directly at a test light so that it stimulates only the cones in the fovea?

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Cone spectral sensitivity curve

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This occurs when a number of neurons synapse onto a single neuron.

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(Neural) Convergence

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The process of increasing sensitivity to light in the dark

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Dark adaptation

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A function which relates sensitivity to light to time in the dark, beginning when the lights are extinguished.

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Dark adaptation Curve

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“This threshold, the minimum amount
of energy necessary to just barely see the light, is converted to sensitivity; it is measured while the eyes are adapted to the light; 100,000 times greater than the light-adapted sensitivity mea- sured before dark adaptation began”

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Dark-adapted sensitivity

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These parts of the neuron branch out from the cell body to receive electrical signals from other neurons

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Dendrites

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Process which shows the inside of the neuron becoming more positive; causes the charge to change in the direction that triggers an action potential; an excitatory response

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Depolarization

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17
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detachment of retina to pigment epithelium can occur as a result of traumatic injuries of the eye or head, as when a baseball player is hit in the eye by a line drive.

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T/F

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This occurs when the inside of the neuron becomes more positive; one of the two types of responses by the receptor sites.

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Excitatory response

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19
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_____ point is he distance at which light becomes focused on the retina.

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Far point

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20
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It only contains cones. When we look directly at an object, the object’s image falls on this one.

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Fovea

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21
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Where do signals generated in the receptors travel to after the bipolar cells?

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Ganglion cells

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Other than bipolar and ganglion cells, and receptors, what are the two types of neurons that connect neurons across the retina? (2)
Signals travel between receptors through here.

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Horizontal cells

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23
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This condition happens when the focus point for parallel rays of light is located behind the retina, usually because the eyeball is too short.

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Hyperopia

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They are molecules that carry an electrical charge; present in the liquid solution of neurons.

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Ions

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25
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What happens in isomeization?

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Retinal changes shape from being bent to straight and detaches from the opsin.

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26
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These signals (from receptors transported to neurons w/in retina) are transmitted out of the back of the eye in the optic nerve to a group of neurons

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Lateral geniculate nucleus

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27
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20% of the focusing power goes here.

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Lens

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A condition most common in older people, destroys the cone- rich fovea and a small area that surrounds it. This creates a blind region in central vision, so when a person looks directly at something, he or she loses sight of it

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Macular degeneration

29
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Light of a single wavelength used when measuring one wavelength at a time and the observer’s sensitivity to each wavelength

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Monochromatic light

30
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An inability to see distant objects clearly. The system of this condition brings parallel rays of light into focus at a point in front of the retina, so the image that reaches the retina is blurred.

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Myopia

31
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This distance at which the lens can no longer accommodate to bring close objects into focus.

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Near point

32
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filled with fluid that conducts electrical signals

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Nerve fiber

33
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interconnected groups of neurons

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Neural circuits

34
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This occurs when one of more neuron synapse into a single neuron.

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Neural convergence

35
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Electrical signals occur in structures

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Neuron

36
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These are chemicals released at the end of the neuron

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Neurotransmitter

37
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This contains both rods and cones and all of the retina outside of the fovea.

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Peripheral retina

38
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The ease with which a molecule can pass through the membrane; can be seen through the opening of channels (i.e. Na) and can be highly selective to a specific type of molecule.

A

Permeability

39
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a layer that contains enzymes necessary for pigment regeneration.

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Pigment epithelium

40
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The increasing of distance of the near point as a person gets older.

A

Presbyopia

41
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This is an important property of action potential; once the response is triggered, it travels all the way down the axon without decreasing in size.

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Propagated response

42
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A hole in the iris from which light passes through. Controls dilation or constriction of the pupil.

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Pupil

43
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Enhanced perception of short wavelengths during dark adaptation

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Purkinje shift (p. 33)

44
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These are small areas on the receiving neuron after the synapse; specific to neurotransmitters.

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Receptor sites (p. 39)

45
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A condition in which the cornea and/or the lens bends the light too much; images of faraway objects are not focused sharply

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Refractive myopia (p. 25)

46
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The interval between the time one nerve impulse occurs and the next one can be generated in the axon.

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Refractory period (p. 37)

47
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______ potential is when the axon or nerve fiber is at rest and the difference in potential between the tips of two electrodes is -70 mV, which stays the same as long as there are no signals in the neuron.

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Resting potential (p. 36)

48
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This condition first attacks the peripheral rod receptors and results in poor vision in the peripheral visual field; it is also generational.

A

Retinitis pigmentosa (p. 29)


49
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A condition wherein there are no cones due to a rare genetic defect.

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Rod monochromat (p. 31)

50
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A process where cones are more sensitive to light at the beginning of dark adaptation, they control our vision during the early stages of adaptation, so we can’t see what the rods are doing.

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Rod adaptation

51
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To measure this curve, we measure the sensitivity after the eye is dark adapted (so the rods control vision because they are the most sensitive receptors) and present test ashes in the peripheral retina.

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Rod spectral sensitivity curve (p. 33)

52
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The place where the rods begin to determine the dark adaptation curve.

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Rod–cone break (p. 31)


53
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This can be measured by getting 1/threshold. High threshold (i.e. takes a high amt of light to be at the lower level of sensitivity).

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Sensitivity

54
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neurons specialized to respond to environmental stimuli

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Sensory receptor (p. 35)


55
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eye’s sensitivity to light as a function of the light’s wavelength.

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Spectral sensitivity (p. 32)


56
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relationship between wavelength and sensitivity; to see diff wavelengths in the visible spectrum

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Spectral sensitivity curve (p. 32)


57
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action potentials that occur in absence of stimuli from environment

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Spontaneous activity (p. 38)

58
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very small space between neurons

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Synapse (p. 39)

59
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minimum amount of energy necessary to just barely see the light

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Threshold

60
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transformation of one form of energy into another form of energy; transformation of light energy into electrical energy—occurs in the receptors for vision: the rods and cones

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Transduction (p. 26)


61
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Ability to see details clearly.

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Visual acuity (p. 43)


62
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These are molecules which absorb light and found in the outer segments of visual receptors.

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Visual pigment (p. 23)


63
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A process w/c accounts for change in shape and separation from the opsin causing the molecule to become lighter.

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Visual pigment bleaching (p. 31)

64
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A process which occurs more rapidly in the cones than in the rods; rods take about 20 to 30 minutes to reach their maximum sensitivity (point R on the curve), compared to only 3 to 4 minutes for the cones (point C) because of this.

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Visual pigment regeneration (p. 32)

65
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what are the two types of responses that occur at the receptor sites?

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excitatory and inhibitory responses

66
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When electrical signal reaches the synapse, it triggers a chemical process that causes a new electrical signal in the receiving neuron. Where do the nature of these signals depend on?

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type of transmitter released and nature of receptor site in the receiving neuron

67
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What increases the chance that a neuron will generate action potentials and is associated with increasing rates of nerve firing?

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Excitation

68
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What decreases the chance that a neuron will generate action potentials and is associated with lowering rates of nerve firing?

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Inhibition

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