Vision (Part 1)

Question 1

Which two eye structures bend light?

Answer 1

Cornea, lens

Question 2

What does amplitude refer to?

Answer 2

Brightness

Question 3

What does length refer to?

Answer 3

Hue or colour

Question 4

What does purity refer to?

Answer 4

Saturation

Question 5

What does the vitreous humour do?

Answer 5

Gives eye its shape

Question 6

What does the aqueous humour do?

Answer 6

Provides nutrients for eye

Question 7

What does the ciliary muscle do?

Answer 7

Controls the lens

Question 8

What does the pupil do?

Answer 8

Allows incoming light to strike the retina

Question 9

What is it called when the lens adjusts its shape to compensate for the distance of an object from the retina.

Answer 9

Accomodation

Question 10

What does visual acuity refer to?

Answer 10

Detail

Question 11

If I can see close well, far bad, and my eye is too long what do I have?

Answer 11

Myopia

Question 12

If I can see close bad, far good, and my eye is too short, what do I have?

Answer 12

Hyperopia

Question 13

Low spatial resolution, very sensitive, and not very good with details, what am I?

Answer 13

Rods

Question 14

High spatial resolution, not very sensitive, allow us to see colour, and good with details, what am I?

Answer 14

Cones

Question 15

What is a receptive field?

Answer 15

The area on a sensory surface that a neuron will respond to when stimulated

Question 16

____ ____ is when the activity of one cell suppresses the activity of a nearby cell.

Answer 16

Lateral inhibition

Question 17

_____ stream travels through the parietal cortex and allows us to see where an object is relative to its surroundings

Answer 17

Dorsal

Question 18

_____ stream travels through the temporal cortex and allows us to identify objects

Answer 18

Ventral