Andrea Colleen R. Glova Mrs. Florence H.

Baluran
BSN 1 –ND August 22,2020

1. Describe how a stimulus becomes a sensation.

Our Sensation is activated by the sensory receptors at the level of the stimulus. Perception
is the central processing of sensory stimuli into a meaningful pattern involving awareness.
Perception is dependent on sensation, but not all sensations are perceived. Receptors are the
structures that detect sensations. Often sensation is described as a bottom-up process, starting
with stimulation of a sense organ receptor and moving toward the brain. Sensation is often
differentiated from the related and dependent concept of perception, which processes and
integrates sensory information in order to give meaning to and understand the detected stimuli,
giving rise to subjective perceptual experience.

2. Perhaps you have heard someone say that eating carrots is good for the eyes. What is the
basis for this claim?
Carrots are rich in vitamin A, the key nutrient for good vision. Eating carrots can provide
you with a significant amount of vitamin A required for good vision. Carrots are good sources of
lutein and beta carotene, which are antioxidants that benefit eye health and protect against age-
related degenerative eye diseases. Your body converts beta carotene into vitamin A, a nutrient
that helps you see in the dark. But eating more carrots does not help to improve your vision if
you have enough vitamin A in your diet.

3. How does dark and light adaptation occur?

Dark adaptation is simply the opposite of the adaptation of light. This happens when you
go from a well-light to a dark place. Initially, blackness is seen because our cones cease to work
in low-intensity light. Often, all rod pigments have been bleached out due to the bright light and
the rods are initially non-functional. While the light adaption occurs as we pass from the dark to
the bright light. The bright light briefly dazzles us, and all we see is white light, as the sensibility
of the receptors is set to dim light. Rods and cones are also activated and large amounts of photo
pigment are broken down instantaneously, resulting in a flood of signals resulting in glare. This
happens when the sensitivity of the retina decreases dramatically and retinal neurons undergo
rapid adaptation inhibiting rod function and favouring the cone system.
4. Explain how binocular vision allows for depth perception?
The forward-facing orientation of the eye means that each eye has a very similar view of
the image. The field of vision, which is the area you can see when you shut one eye, overlaps
greatly with each eye. The middle of the field of view of the eyes most overlaps with each other.
This portion of the visual field provides the brain with the most accurate details. Visual
information in the periphery or center of the visual field can, of course, be identified by one eye,
but the combined visual information is what is needed for binocular processing. Such awareness
is conveyed to the rest of the brain. One of the reasons why binocular vision is so essential is that
it helps us to perceive depth and the interaction between objects. Each eye sees slightly different
spatial details and transmits the differences to the brain. The brain then uses the variations
between the two eyes to determine distance and depth.