Vision: AP Psychology

What part of the eye allows us to see color?

• cones
• rods
• iris
• eyeball

The part of your eye that gives it its color.  It is a muscle that controls the size of your pupil.

• cornea
• lens
• pupi
• iris

Gathers information about color, shape, and size of eye and sends to the optic nerve.

• optic nerve
• Retina
• Neuron
• cornea

Proposed theory for color vision with opposing retinal process for red-green, yellow-blue, white-black.

• opponent process theory
• tri-chromatic theory
• frequency theory

Where does the optic nerve take the visual information?

• To the Thalamus and then to the Occipital Lobe
• to the Hippocampus and then to the Occipital Lobe
• to the Hypothalamus and then to the Occipital Lobe
• to the Cerebellum and then to the Occipital Lobe

theory that the retina contains three different color receptors- Red, Green, and Blue

• Young Helmholtz Trichromatic  Theory
• Gate control Theory
• Place Theory
• Tri Hue Theory

The first part of the eye that light hits. 

• lens
• cornea
• pupil
• retina

As the football game continued into the night, Leondre noticed that he was having difficulty distinguishing the colors of the players' uniforms. This is because the _______________, which enable color vision, have a _______________ absolute threshold for brightness than the available light intensity.

• Rods; higher
• Cones; higher
• Rods; lower
• Cones; lower

Which of the following is the correct order of the structures through which light passes after entering the eye?

• Lens, pupil, cornea, retina
• Pupil, cornea, lens, retina
• Cornea, retina, pupil, lens
• Cornea, pupil, lens, retina

Receptors for Visual Processing, Detect Black, white and gray, important in dim light

• Rods
• Feature Detectors
• Bipolar Cells
• Occipital Cells