PSYC 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Color Vision, Nystagmus, Dishabituation
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Refers to the sharpness or clearness of your vision. 20/20 = your vision is as good as other people. Shapes are used to measure a child"s vision. 20/400 = an infant can see at 20ft, while a person with a good vision can see at 400ft. Detect whether an adult or a child is color-blind. Habituation and dishabituation = trying to get you bored and not bored. By measuring the time span of their looking time > they noticed the color difference if. Newborns" color vision is limited compared to adults. By 4 moths, color vision is nearly adult like. Gibson and walk (1960) the visual cliff. Looming: refers to the increase and decrease of the size of an object"s image on there. Stereopsis is the process leading to the perception of death from the two slightly different. Sensitivity to pictorial depth cues seem to develop in 5 months of age. Newborns prefer looking at faces over scrambled faces.
