Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Transducin, Choroid, Rhodopsin

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Similarity items similar to one another grouped together. Pragnanz reality is often organized reduced to simplest form possible (ex. Proximity objects that are close are grouped together. Continuity lines are seen as following the smoothest path. Closure objects grouped together are seen as a whole. Cornea transparent thick sheet of tissue, anterior 1/6th. Anterior chamber space filled with aqueous humour, which provides pressure to maintain shape of eyeball. Pupil is hole made by iris, which determines eye color. Lens bends the light so it goes to back of eyeball. These two things together form the ciliary body, what secrets the aqueous humor. Posterior chamber is area behind the ciliary muscle, also filled with aqueous humor. Vitreous chamber filled with vitreous humour, jelly-like substance to provide pressure to eyeball. Retina is filled with photoreceptors: macula special part of retina rich in cones, fovea completely covered in cones, no rods. Choroid pigmented black in humans, a network of blood vessels.