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1
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explain the sensations in the brina

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it has no sensations

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2
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what do organs and senses do?

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send out notifications to the brain

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3
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What is sensation?

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detecting energy in the world and code it as neural signals our senses systemize and do the work

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4
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what is perception?

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select, organize, and interpit the sensatoins

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what is the thershold?

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point where a change in stimuls can be detected (noticable differnce)

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6
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minimal value of a stimulus can be detected

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absolute threshold

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7
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minimal value that can be detected within weight

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difference threshold

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what is the signal detection theory

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to detect only stimulus is a dependent on stimulus intensisty, background noise, and random neural activity

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what is below the threshold/?

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subliminal stimuli

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10
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what frequency can we see with vision?

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380-760 nm

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liquid part of the eye between cornea and pupil

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aqueous humor

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12
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what does the lens do

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focuses the light on the retina

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13
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sphincter muscle that controls the shape of the eye

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ciliary muscle

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14
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ability for the lens to take shape

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accomidation

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15
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what does the pupil do

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opening in the center of the eye that allows light to pass

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16
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what is the function of the iris?

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2 bands of sphincter muscle that control the size of pupil, colored

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what is the vitreous humor

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gelatin inside the eye

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18
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what are floaters

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debris in vitrious humor that cast a shadow on the eye

19
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what is the retina

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black surface of eye that is lined by photoreceptors (light is inverted upside down and backwards)

20
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explain the fovea

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(no rods) point of central focus, depression in retina, and center of macula

21
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blind spot, place at which nerves and blood vessels enter and exit the eye

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optic disk

22
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explain rods

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dim light, monocromatic, poor aquity-sharp, found in the perifery

23
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explain cones

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bright light, in color, good aquity, fovea

24
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what happens when light hits the photoreceptors?

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photo pigment breaks apart and stimulates the cell sending a messasge to bipolar cells the bipolar cells send it to the ganglion cells and it sends it to exit the eye at the optic disk

25
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where is the intersection of cross over?

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optic chiasm

26
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where is visual info proccessed ayt/

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thalamus but actually is lateral geniculate nurcleus of the thalamus

27
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what is the arago effect

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no rods in fovea

28
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what is yello

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blue and green

29
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red+green+blue =

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white light

30
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who said we have three cells sensative to different colors red, green, blue

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young, Helmholtz

31
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what is the oponent process theory?

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we have two kinds of cells red-green, blue-yellow

32
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what is the retinex theory

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all vision involves the retina but also the cerebral cortex

33
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two eye preception of vision

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binocular

34
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turning off the eyes to pick up how close something is

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convergence

35
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allows us to see in 3D

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retina disparity

36
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being able to see in 3D

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stereopsis

37
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seeing with one eye

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minocular

38
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what is linear prespection

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lines that run away from us

39
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texture gradient?

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objects closer can tell more detail

40
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interposition?

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closer objects tend to block objects that are further away

41
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relative size?

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distance further away look smaller

42
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height on plane?

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things further away tend to be higher

43
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motion paralax

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when i move objects closer to me the more rapidlly than objects further away while moving

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