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1000 facts

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( ) blue, ( ) green ( ) red are the cone peaks   450,510,570  
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___ quanta are minimum for detection in dark adapted person   5 to 14, average of 9  
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a deuteranomolous trichromat mataches ___ with red and green on the anomoloscope, a normal trichromate would see more___   yellow, green  
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a gray square will appear red on a ___ background because of simulataneous contrast   green  
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a myope sees a __ center with a ___ fringe when looking at a cobalt filter   red , blue  
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a person cannot be a ____   deuteranomolous deuteranope  
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a protanope and a deuteranope have the same ___ luminosity curve   scotopic  
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__ ( not effect) states the luminance of a mixture of colors is equal to the sum of the luminance of it parts (luminance is additive)   Abney's law  
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airy's disc is due to __   diffraction  
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an emmetrope with +1.00 will see a __ circle with __ center   blue, red  
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at the rod saturation pt, 10% of the pigment is ___   bleached  
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___ motion is apparent motion of small isolated object in dark environment   Autokinetic  
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___ masking is explained by a latency difference   backward  
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___ of the retina can be seen as moving spots while looking at a brightly illuminated surface (blue sky)   blue arcs  
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____ are entopic phenomena seen in the center of the fovea   blue spots or maxwell spots  
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___ color vision problems can be due to acquired ON defect   blue yellow  
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Cataracts and age ___ CFF   decrease  
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Cells in an ocular dominance column respond to stimuli in the __ orientation   same  
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CFF decreases ___ by age 40,70% is due to ___   decrease, senile miosis  
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CFF __ with yellowing of the lens   decreases  
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CFF __ with light intensity , if high frequency   increases  
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it takes __ minutes for 50% of rods to regenerate and __ min for 50% of cones to regenerate   5, 1.5  
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kitten's critical period is   1-3 months  
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Lambert surface reflects light equally in __ direction (a perfect diffuser)   ALL  
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large pupils effect VA by __ & ___ aberration   spherical and chromatic  
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location of maximal stimulus for rods is   > 20 degrees  
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__ is the rate of passage of light from a source   luminous flux  
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clouds are white due to ____ scatter   Tyndall  
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color confusion is the basis for ____   pseudoisochromatic plates  
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color specification can be demonstrated by __,__,___   hue, chroma, value  
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complete spatial summation is implied in _____   Ricco's law  
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cones are maximally sensitive @ ___   555 nm  
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Contrast sensitivity peaks at all spatial frequencies by age ___ and remains until __   18, 39  
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contrast sensitivity shows overall depression under ___ condition   mesopic  
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___ varies directly with the effective size of a retinal unit   depth of focus  
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___ is the minimum visible   detection VA  
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____'s colors generally attributed to different photoreceptor latencies   fechner's  
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for given exposure to light, __ bleach faster   cone  
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For every __ you move out on the horopter, panum's fusional area gets larger by __ degree   5, 1  
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__ and __ contribute to chroma   Hue and saturation  
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__ specifies how much color stimulus differs from a white light of equal brightness   HUE  
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if cones and rods are both bleached, after 5 minutes, more __ than __ will be regenerated   cones , rods  
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if you induce exotropia, a monkey will be able to see out of either, , but not at the same time    
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if you wanted to test scotopic dark adaptation, you would use ___ target located __ degrees eccentrically   blue/green , 20  
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in a badal optometer, a __, lens would provide __ per centimeter of object displacement   +40, 16D  
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in the dark, accommodative posture is __ infinitiy   inside  
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__ yields a continuous spectrum   incandescence  
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in the leaf room, all __ cues are removed   monocular  
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induced effect is from X __. geometric effect is from __   180, x090  
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monkeys critical period is ___   6 wks  
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monkeys raised in a confined environment will exhibit ___   myopia  
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Moore 's lighting streaks may be a sign of ___   PVD  
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most common ectopic phenomena are from ___   vitreal floaters  
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most common form of hereditary CV deficiency is __   deuteranomaly  
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most common method of determining the horopter is the __   apparent fronto-parallel plane  
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___ parallax is a cue that is within arms length   motion  
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__ myopia is due to resting accommodation, chromatic aberration, spherical aberration, and extrafoveal fixation   Night  
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Normal vernier acutity is __   2-4 seconds  
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panum's fusional area is the largest ___   in the periphery  
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peak of CFF is __   5 cycles/degree  
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phosphenes are more commonly seen in ___ women, and are seen __ and __   middle aged, vertically and temporally  
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pulfrich phenomenon is seen ___ with filter on the OD ey e   Counterclockwise  
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receptive fields of complex cells are selective for ____   motion of a certain orientation  
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red curve is missing for __, green for __   prontonopes,deuteronopes  
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red-yellow are the colors that are confused by a ____   tritanope  
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refocusing with (+) lens affects CSF @ __ frequency   high  
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retinal vessels are not visible due to ___ effect   troxler effect  
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rods are maximally sensitive @   505  
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signal detection DOES NOT detect ___   background noise  
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Sky is blue due to ____   rayleigh scatter  
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small pupil decreases VA by ___   Diffraction  
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snellen acutiy compares with CSF at ___ frequency   highest frequency  
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spectral sensitivity shifts towards __ wavelengths as you age   LOW  
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stereopsis requires ___ disparity   HORIZONTAL  
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stiles crawford effect I (angle affects brightness) has to do with wave property of light    
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stiles crawford effect I is present in __ and __ , but more in ___   rods and cone, cones  
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temporal summation is ___ sec for scotopic and __ msec for photoptic   100 ms, and 10-50 msec  
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temporal summation is ___ of wavelength   independent  
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temporal summation is longer for ___ stimuli and lower __ levels   pattern, light  
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the ___ wave has the highest amplitude   B  
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the best measure of resoln acuity is __   grating stimuli  
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the flicker and cascade methods represents techniques used in ____   heterochromatic photometry  
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the greatest modulation in a diagram is the one with the greatest difference in   peak and trough  
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the hue that will appear least saturated to deuteranope is ___   green  
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the ___is a unit of luminous flux (luminous pwr)   lumen  
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the main reason for modular transfer is ___ image on the retina   quality  
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the min distance that can be resolved at 1km with the unaided eye is ___   26.8  
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the nonius horopter is referred to as the ___ horopter   equi-angular  
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the peak of phototopic luminosity curve is ___   555  
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the perceived brightness of a brief single flash stimulus remains constant if time is ___ than the critical duration   greater  
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the photochromatic interval is __ for red stimuli and is larger for ____   0, blue/green  
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____ are designed around confusion lines in the CIE diagram   pseudoisochromatic plates  
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the process of colors analysis begins at the ___   retina  
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the purkinje shift prves the __ theory   purkinje  
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the spatial modulation transfer fxn is the ratio of the input frequency to the __ input   contrast  
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Luminance, chromaticity, s phase( LCS) potential are ___   graded, transient  
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the threshold sensitivity of ___ is more affected than cones by a given amt of pigment bleaching   rods  
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the time required to perceive apparent motion is a ___ msec pause btw 2 targets   50-60  
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the __ is a measure of retinal illuminance   troland  
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the ___ is the luminance of a stimulus times the area of the entrance pupil   troland  
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under scoptopic conditions , ___ will seems brighter   blue poker chips  
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___ light causes cataract changes and is the most damaging to ocular structures   UV B 300  
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VA ___ as airy disc __   increases, decreases  
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__ is the best measure of VA   vernier  
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___ are preferred in the cortex   vertical  
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VM circle is the locus of pts with ---geometric retinal disparity   0  
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when you fixate on a dart target, it is __   oculoexentric  
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with ODX90 and OS X 180 right wall will seem ___   farther out  
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