Vision

Question 1

Amount of energy in light waves

Answer 1

Intensity

Question 2

The distance from one peak to the next

Answer 2

Wavelength

Question 3

The lens focuses the rays by changing its curvature

Answer 3

Accommodation

Question 4

Retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray

Use for peripheral and twilight vision

Answer 4

Rods

Question 5

Retinal receptor cells that detect fine details (color) and function in daylight

Answer 5

Cones

Question 6

The nerve that carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain

Answer 6

Optic nerve

Question 7

Where the optic nerve leaves the eye

No receptor cells

Answer 7

Blind spot

Question 8

Fovea

Answer 8

The central focal point in the retina, around which the eye’s cones cluster

Question 9

Retinal processing

Answer 9

Receptor rods and cones–> bipolar cells–> ganglion cells

Question 10

Brain’s detector cells respond to specific features of stimulus (edges, lines, angles , shapes)

Answer 10

Feature detection

Question 11

Parallel processing

Answer 11

Processing color,motion,form, and depth simultaneously

Question 12

Recognition

Answer 12

Brain interprets the constructed image based on info from stored images

Question 13

He retina contains 3 different color receptors. One sensitive to red, green, or blue

Answer 13

Young Helmholtz trichromatic

3-color theory

Question 14

Form or whole

Answer 14

Gestalt

Question 15

Opposing retinal processes enable color vision

Red-green, yellow-blue, white-black

Answer 15

Opponent-process theory

Question 16

The organization of the visual field into objects (figures) stand out from their surroundings (ground
)

Answer 16

Figure-ground