[PSYC 3250] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (99 pages long)
29 Mar 2017
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Light consists of electromagnetic radiation, similar to radio waves but of a different frequency and wavelength. Color can vary in three perceptual dimensions: hue, brightness, and saturation, which correspond to the physical dimensions of wavelength, intensity, and purity. Photoreceptors communicate through synapses with bipolar cells, which communicate through synapses with ganglion cells. In addition, horizontal cells and amacrine cells combine messages from adjacent photoreceptors (they run parallel to the surface of the retina). The lens (immediately behind the iris) is a convex, transparent disk, which refracts light to focus on the retina. The lens shape can be altered by contraction of the ciliary muscles. To focus on close object, muscles around lens contract (lens rounder). To focus on far object, muscles in lens flatten. Near & far sighted ppl have trouble making these accommodations. When light strikes a molecule of photopigment in a photoreceptor, the retinal molecule detaches from the opsin molecule.
