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| When sense organs recieve and respond to stimuli in our environment |
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A two-stage process
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Personal experiences, culture, biases will effect our ultimate perception |
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| This Law states that the sensation one experiences increases as a logarithmic function of the intensity of the stimulus. |
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| The ability to recognize that more or less of some experienced sensation appeared to be related to the initial magnitude of the stimulus |
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| The smallest intensity of a stimulus that can be accurately detected 50% of the time |
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| Differential, difference, and just noticable differences |
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| Dominant sense for most people |
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| Wavelengths that comprise a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans respond to |
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| the chamber behind the cornea, but in front of the iris |
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| Irregularity in the cornea that diffuses light |
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| The lens is located right behind the ________. |
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| Tough, Fibrous, Protects the Eye, Helps Keep the shape coat |
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| Underneath Sclerotic Coat, vascular part of the eye, absorbs stray light, and prevents light from entering anywhere but cornea and lens. |
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| Name the two specialized cells in the retina |
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| Sensitive to night vision, cylindrical |
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| Responsible for color perception and sharp visual acuity |
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| Where most cones are located |
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| Where does the most distint vision take place? |
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| Optic Nerve (Fibers and Gangolion Cells) leaves eye transporting info to occipital lobe. No rods or cones. What is this? |
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| Fluid that fills the chamber of the eye |
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| Process in which the lens changes shape to focus at different distances from the eye |
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| The lense is controlled by ______ muscles. |
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| Tiny spots that periodically float across the visual field |
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| Process of converting energy into neutral impulses |
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| A hole in the back of the eye connecting to the optic nerve fibers |
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| Where neural impulses carry visual information through |
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| The human eye has 3 types of cones (red,green,blue) and all color perception is due to the mixing of these 3 colors |
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| Colors are paired and do not work with each other(red vs. green, black vs. white, blue vs. yellow) |
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| Monocular Depth Perception |
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| Accomodation and motion parallex are important for this |
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| Binocular Depth Perception |
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| Retinal Disparity and Convergence are important |
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