PSYC 212 Study Guide - Final Guide: Scotopic Vision, Correspondence Problem, Binocular Rivalry
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When passed through a prism, you split it in diff. wavelengths. So, light that has a short wavelength will bend earlier, and light that has a longer wavelength will bend later. Question: all light sources give off the same spectrum of light. That"s why images taken under totally different light conditions come out looking the same: true, false. Different light sources can have diff. emission spectra. These four figures describe the relative intensity of the different wavelengths making up one light source. Sunlight (full spectrum) emits light at practically every wavelength that is visible to you. If you plot the energy of each wavelength, you see a lot of power across the spectrum. It emits more light in the longer wavelength of the spectrum than in the short wavelength. Fluorescent light bulbs don"t have a broad spectrum, but emit light in fixed intervals (limited band width) Lasers emit light at one specific wavelength.
