Vision Flashcards
Transducer
It’s output is a nerve impulse each sense has their own
Receptor cells
Modified nerve cells
Sensation
Raw incoming information
Perception
Resulting of processing in the brain
When is light 2d?
When it hits the retina
Is depth sent from either eye?
No
What is desparity?
The difference of images from either eye (can create how you see depth)
Phycophysicist
People studying the physical world vs. perceptual experience they try to connect the two
Relative threshold
Relative to previous experience there is a minimal change (difference of colors)
JND
Just noticeable difference
Subjective scaling
Saying numbers that correspond to your experience
What is our hearing range?
20 cps- 20,000 cps
Subjective probability
The likely hood that you think something will happen to you
In your eye what does the light hit first?
Cornea
What is your lens?
Biconvex
What is cataracts?
Lens becomes cloudy
What was Stratton’s experiment?
Displace visual array- upside down glasses - vision is learned
What is vision?
Learned