Photopic system
NewsLink: Vision
This assignment will help you make connections between the science of biopsychology and your daily life, and keep you apprised of the latest developments in the field. You will search BioPsychology NewsLink (3e.mindsmachine.com/news) for a media article related to the Vision chapter. You can search by keyword using the chapter's key terms in the list below, or click on the links by chapter. You can also enter one of the keywords on Google (news tab). Once you find a layperson article you're interested in, complete your journal entry by answering the six assignment questions.
The journal is not a paper! Aim for one sentence per prompt. Work offline in a word processing program, but cut and paste your answers into the text box. Kindly do not attach a document.
1. What keyword did you search?
2. What is the article about?
3. How was the research conducted?
4. What results caught your eye?
5. What conclusions can you draw?
6. What is the link to your article?
Key Terms
accommodation
amacrine cell
amblyopia
binocular
bipolar cell
blind spot
blindsight
brightness
ciliary muscle
complex cortical cell
cone
convergence
cornea
extraocular muscle
extrastriate cortex
fovea
ganglion cell
horizontal cell
hue
iris
lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)
lateral inhibition
lens
myopia
occipital cortex
off-center bipolar cell
off-center ganglion cell
off-center/on-surround
on-center bipolar cell
on-center ganglion cell
on-center/off-surround
opponent-process hypothesis
optic ataxia
optic chiasm
optic disc
optic nerve
optic radiation
optic tract
photopic system
photoreceptor
photoreceptor adaptation
primary visual cortex (V1)
pupil
range fractionation
receptive field
refraction
retina
rhodopsin
rod
saturation
scotoma
scotopic system
simple cortical cell
spatial-frequency model
spectrally opponent cell
topographic projection
transduction
trichromatic hypothesis
visual acuity
visual field