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15 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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cornea
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clear, light bending membrane in front of eye
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pupil
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opening in eye that allows light to enter.
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iris
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gives you color. controls size of pupil opening.
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lens
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changes shape when u try to focus and focuses incoming light onto the back of the eye.
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retina
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contains rods and cones. rods help u detect movement, cones help u see color.
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fovea
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central focal point of the retina. only has cones around it and is used for detecting fine detail
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blind spot
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spot on the optic nerve that does not have receptor cells
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ganglion cells
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send messages to optic nerves
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bipolar cells
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organize and process information
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trichromatic theory
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there are three light-sensitive structures responsive to red, green, and blue light
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opponent processing theory
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accounts for mechanisms that receive and process information from cones
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parallel processing
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brain divides what it sees into color, motion, form and depth
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gestalt psychology
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integrate and organize perceptual information into meaningful wholes
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proximity/contiguity
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things that are close together will be seen as belonging together.
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similarity
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things which share visual characteristics such as shape, size, color, texture, value or orientation will be seen as belonging together.
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