Biopysch Chapter 5

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In the human retina, messages go from receptors at the back of the eye to ___.

Bipolar cells

The name of the point at which the optic nerve leaves the retina is called the ___.

Blind spot

Which receptors are responsible for the preception of color?

Cones only

Human newborns come into the world predisposed to pay more attention to ____ than any other stationary displays.

Faces

The optic nerve is composed of axons from which kind of cell?

Ganglion cells

Which statement characterizes the fovea?

It has the greatest perception of detail

After you stare at a bright green object for a minute and look away, you see red. Which theory attempts to explain this finding?

Opponent-process theory

According to the trichromatic theory of color vision____.

Our perception of color depends on the relative activity of three types of cones

Chemical's that release energy when struck by light are called____.

Photopigments

In what order does visual information pass through the retina?

Receptor cells, bipolar cells, ganglion cells

Someone with prosopagnosia has difficulty with ____.

Recognizing faces

Difficulty distinguishing between ____ and ____ is the most common form of color vision deficiency.

Red;green

Light enters the eye through an opening in the center of the iris called the ____.

Retina

Johannes Muller held that whatever excites a particular nerve establishes a special kind of energy unique to that nerve

True

An inability to recognize objects despite otherwise satisfactory vision is called ____.

Visual agnosia

Accorsing to the law of specific nerve energies, the brain tells the difference between one sensory modality and another by ____

Which neurons are active

What is strabismus?

a failure of the two eyes to focus on the same thing at the same time

In comparison to cones, rods ____.

are more sensitive to dim light

A person with visual agnosia is unable to ____.​

recognize visual objects

Blindsight refers to ____.

the ability to localize visual objects within an apparently blind visual field

Rods are to ____ as cones are to ____.

the periphery; the fovea


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