PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter Module 4.2: Actual Size, Color Blindness, Temporal Lobe

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

Module 4. 2 the visual system psychology 2017-10-01. The key terms related to the eye and vision. How visual info travels from the eye through the brain to give us the experience of sight. Your knowledge to explain how we perceive depth in our visual field. Primary function of the eye is to gather light and change it into an action potential. Light: refers to radiation that occupies a relatively narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum. Light travels in two waves that vary in terms of two different properties: length and amplitude. Wavelength: refers to the distance between peaks of a wave differences in wavelength correspond to different colours on the electromagnetic spectrum. Amplitude: refers to the height of a wave. Hue: colour of the spectrum intensity: brightness. Sclera: is the white, outer curface of the eye. Cornea: is the clean layer that covers the front portion of the eye and also contributes to the eye"s a(cid:271)ility to fo(cid:272)us .