Psychology I

Psychology Assignment 8 Stephanie Sasek Ashworth College AC09085 December 30, 2019 Part I: The visual system is responsible for creating your representation for the world around you. Your vision is much more of a complicated system than one actually can imagine, the visual experience is made up of three psychological dimensions which all come from wavelength, intensity and the complexity of light. These three psychological dimensions are hue, brightness and saturation. Hue, which can also be referred to color appearance parameters, can be defined as “the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue and yellow”. In most cases, when there are colors that are the same hue, they are distinguished by a referral to their colorfulness, or their lightness, for example, “light pink”, “bright pink”, and “neon pink”. The second component of the psychological dimensions of vision is brightness. Brightness can be simply explained as how an object seems to be radiating or reflecting light. It can also be referred to as the luminosity of an object. Brightness is considered to be an attribute, or property of the object. The final piece of the psychological dimensions of vision is saturation. Saturation can be referred to as the purity of the light within the object. The higher the saturation level, the stronger and more vibrant the color will be, and in return, the less of a saturation level, the more achromatic the object. References Vitaterna, M.H., Takahashi, J.S., & Turek, F. W. (2001), Overview of circadian rhythms, Alcohol Research and Health, 25(2), 85-93. Mather, G. (2016). Foundations of Sensation and Perception. Psychology Press. Pg.3 Hier, D.B. (1987). Miscellaneous Disorders. Topics in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychology Shrestha, P. (2017). Principles of Classical Conditioning in Psychestudy Retrieved From: www.psychestudy.com/behavioral/learning-memory/classical-conditioning/principles. Bicchieri, C., Muldoon, R., Sontuoso, A. (2018) Social Norms The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved From: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/social-norms/