Ch 2 Flashcards

(32 cards)

1
Q

Color

A

Amplitude and frequency of light waves

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2
Q

Waveforms of Color

A

High Frequency blue, high pitched

Low frequency= red, low pitched

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3
Q

Iris

A

Pigmented muscles

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4
Q

Lens

A

bends the light for focus

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5
Q

Cilary Muscles

A

pulls on lens

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6
Q

Retina

A

Rods and Cones (colo)

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7
Q

Fovea

A

clearest color image

highest rods in periphery

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8
Q

Optic Nerve

A

axons of ganglion cells

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9
Q

Amorim Cells/Bipolar Cells

A

switches on/off for registering a color

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10
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Opponent Process Theory

A

not getting color still sends signal

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11
Q

Optic Chiasim

A

In Corpus Collosum

Right visual field goes to left side brain

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12
Q

Later Geniculate Nucleus (LGN)

A

Sorts Color

Layers of an onion

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13
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Striate Cortex

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layered part of occipital cortex

“coin sorter” for light to brain

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14
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Parts of occipital cortex

A

V1 primary sorter

V4 color sorter

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15
Q

Fusiform gurus

A

Social sorting

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16
Q

Achromatopsia

A

Can’t perceive color

17
Q

Prosoma gnosis

A

Can’t perceive faces

18
Q

Superposition

A

If something blocks another it’s closer

19
Q

Speed of movement

A

Closer they are more apparent movement

20
Q

Aerial perspective

A

Air between objects cause color change (bluish)

21
Q

Vertical distance

A

Relation of something to horizon for distance

22
Q

Hearing

A

Fluid changes in a fluid medium

23
Q

How is hearing a sense of touch

A

Mechanoreceptors work by mechanically popping a drain plug that allows neurons to perceive

24
Q

Pinna

A

Outside of air

A funnel for sound and sound location

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Ear drum
Flap of skin attach to osciles
26
3 bones of inner ear
Hammer anvil and stirrup
27
Cochlea
Has spinal fluid inside | Pressure changes in cochlea when push oval window
28
Auditory nerve
Twisted bundles of axons connected to hair cells
29
Place theory
Herman Von helmholtz Mapped out frequency areas of cochlea Higher frequencies on outside
30
Location for sound
Time delay between ears
31
Olfactory system
Molecules soaked into dendrites | Take proteins out of air
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Olfactory bulb
Goes through amygdala- vestigial