AP PSYCHOLOGY

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AP PSYCHOLOGY

• Lecture 7
• Vision

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Topics

• What is light
• The makeup of the eye
• Visual perception

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What is light?

• Part of the electromagnetic spectrum that
  stimulates the eye and produces visual sensation

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Eye as a camera

• Cornea
• Iris
• Pupil
• Lens
• Retina
• Bipolar cells
• Ganglion cells
• Optic nerve
• Fovea
• Blind spot

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Vision
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Aspects of the eye

• Feature detection
• Light adaptation
• Color vision
• Visual perception
• Closure
• Figure ground
• Gestalt rules
• Top down/bottom up processing
• Detecting movement

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Aspects of the eye, cont.

• Depth perception
• Monocular cues
• Perspective
• Interposition
• Shadowing
• Texture gradient
• Motion parallax
• Binocular cues
• Constancies size, color, brightness, shape.