Sensation & Perception Flashcards
Sensation
What an individual feels when a stimulus reacts with a receptor.
Sensory Threshold
The necessary strength of a stimulus to instigate an action potential
Habituation
The filtering out of unchanging stimuli
Cornea
Cover of the eye that angles light into the pupil
Aqueous Humor
Clear liquid nourishing and diffracting the eye
Pupil
The center region in which light travels through and is dilated by the iris muscles
Retina
The back of the eye which contains photoreceptors
Lens
Angles light farther to converge on the retina in the back of the eye
Fovea
The central region in the retina with the highest concentration of photoreceptors
Blind Spot
The location of the optic nerve where there are not photoreceptors
Vitreous Humor
Liquid in the eye that bends the light the most… converges on the retina
Rods
non-color photoreceptors that work in low light
Cones
Photoreceptors that collect the high intensity color light; produce colored vision and the sharpness an image has, due to their higher concentration
Trichromatic Theory
There are three colors of photoreceptors (red, blue, and green ) which produce the rainbow of colors we see when activated in various proportions
Opponent-Process Theory
There are four types of cones, (red, blue, green, and yellow) that go in pairs, [red with green, and blue with yellow] that are activated by different colors and when fatigued cause the opponent cone to be stimulated more shifting the color visualized
Afterimage
visual sensation that persists briefly after stimulus ends
Colorblindness
One kind or many kinds of cones that are damaged causing one to see in limited colors and grays
Place Theory
Cell hairs closer to the oval window vibrate at higher frequencies than those farther away