Activity for the book My Psychology

Chapter App 3.2 Vision

Use your experience with the app in Chapter App: 3.2 Vision or view this video overview to answer the questions.

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The Be My Eyes app can assist people who are blind, or people living with a number of other visual impairments, which may involve visual recognition of objects, faces, or words and numbers. The concept that the brain has specific mechanisms specially designed for a variety of different stimuli is known as .
Vision impairment can take many different forms, depending on the nature of the condition. Tyler sustained neural damage and now uses the Be My Eyes app for assistance in identifying familiar objects, despite his ability to see them. Tyler has likely sustained damage to his .
Color blindness can result from deficiencies in any of the three kinds of cones in the eye. The theory that suggests that color vision is based on the idea that these three cones are specialized for sensing either red, green, or blue is known as .
The visual system depends on the proper working of a number of different components of the eye. Which of the following structures is able to change shape to adjust focus on objects at varying distances?
Binocular cues, which indicate depth when using both eyes, is a key component of depth perception. The brain’s ability to measure the difference between the images of a single object sent to both eyes is known as .