PSY100Y5 Chapter 4: PSYChapter 4.doc
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Chapter 4: sensation and perception: psychophysics: basic concepts and issues, introduction. Chanaps: virtual agnosia inability to recognize objects through sight, sensation the stimulation of sensory organs. a. Iris colored ring surrounding pupil (black center of the eye) Ensures that each half of the brain gets info from both eyes: after reaching the optic chiasm, the optic nerve splits between 2 pathways. May be due to result somewhere along the visual pathway. Chapter 4: sensation and perception: viewing the world in color, the stimulus for color, prosopagnosia inability to recognize familiar faces. Most of these people are dichromats: opponent process theory of color vision, complementary colors - pairs of colors that produce gray tones when mixed together, afterimage visual image that persists after a stimulus is removed. More shape and substance, closer to i. viewer, and stand out in front: ground the background against which it stands.