Chapter 5 book questions S&P

Which of the following is not a step toward color perception?

Recalibration

Which of the following is not a type of cone?

T-Cone

Which of the following color pairs is furthest apart in wavelength?

Green and Red

What type of lighting conditions occurs during the daytime in full sunlight?

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The principle of univariance refers to the fact that

an infinite set of different wavelength-intensity combinations can elicit the same response from a
single type of photoreceptor.

According to the ____ theory, the color of any light is defined in our visual system by the
relationships among three numbers of a set

Trichromacy

____ are different mixtures of wavelengths that look identical.

Metamers

How many lights (of the correct type) are required to match any color that humans can see?

Three

When adding colors, blue and yellow create white under ____ color mixing and create green under
____ color mixing.

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) Mixing paints to create new colors is an example of ____ color mixing, while shining lights to create
new colors is an example of ____ color mixing

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What kind of cells in LGN compute chromatic differences, such as (L-M) and (M-L)?

Cone-opponent cells

Which photopigment is involved in regulating the circadian clock?

Melanopsin

According to the opponent color theory, the perception of color is based on the output of ____ cones,
each of them an opponency between ____ colors.

three; two

Which of the following is not one of the color-opponent pairs coded by the visual system?

Red versus blue

Which of the following colors is "illegal" for our visual systems?

Greenish-Red

Which of the following is not a unique hue?

Magenta

A unique blue is a blue that has no ____ or green tint.

red

In the hue cancellation experiments described in the textbook, if the starting color were too reddish,
you would add

green

Double-opponent cells are first found in

visual cortex

____ is the inability to perceive colors due to damage to the central nervous system.

Achromatopsia

Which of the following is not a basic color term?

Rose

is the idea that basic perceptual experiences may be determined in part by the cultural
environment

Cultural relativism

Color blindness/Absence of M-Cones

deuteranope

Color blindness/Absence of L-Cones

protanope

Color blindness/Absence of S-Cones

tritanope

Which of the following describes an individual with no cones of any type?

Rod Monochromat

Which of the following describes an individual with no rods of any type?

Cone Monochromat

What is the term for an inability to name objects or colors despite being able to see and recognize
them?

Agnosia

____ is a color perception effect in which the color of one region induces the opponent color in a
neighboring region.

Color Contrast

__ is a color perception effect in which two colors bleed into each other, each taking on some of the
chromatic quality of the other.

Color assimiliation

Which of the following is a related color?

Orange

A(n) ____ is a visual image seen after the stimulus has been removed.

Afterimage

In the case of a negative afterimage, a yellow stimulus would produce a ____ afterimage

Blue

The tendency of a surface to appear the same color under a fairly wide range of illuminations is

Color Constancy

What is the function relating the wavelength of light to the percentage of that wavelength that is
reflected from the surface?

Spectral reflectance function

What is the term for the light that illuminates a surface?

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Assumptions about ____ is not a physical constraint that makes constancy possible.

Afterimages

Which of the following is an argument from the textbook about the usefulness of color vision?

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Some animals achieve color vision not with different photopigments, but rather with

drops of colored oil over their photoreceptors.