SUBMITTEED BY:

ABDUL REHMAN

SUBJECT:
PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY

EXPERIMENT:
BLIND SPOT

SUPERVISED BY:
MA’AM NOOR AALAM

Department of Applied Psychology.

Islamia University Bahawalpur (IUB), Bahawalpur Campus.
 EXPERIMENT NO.1 (BLIND SPOT)

Blind Spot:
To see or not to see.
The eye’s retina receives and reacts to incoming light and sends signals to the brain,
allowing you to see. One part of the retina, however, doesn't give you visual information
—this is your eye’s “blind spot.”

Tools and Materials:

 A few 3 × 5 cards or other stiff paper
 Black marking pen (felt tip works best)
 Optional: yard stick or meter stick and a partner

Assembly

Mark a dot and a cross on a card as shown...

Experiment Module:
The blind spot is a part of the retina where there are no photoreceptors. To
demonstrate its existence to yourself, close your right eye, look at the +
sign below with your left eye, then move your head toward or away from
the screen slowly while continuing to watch the + sign. The big black dot
will disappear as it passes through the blind spot of the retina of your left
eye.

Thus there is a portion of your field of vision that you would expect to
experience as missing. The reason this does not happen is that your brain
fills in the blind spot with the color and texture of the area surrounding it. In
the above experiment, the black dot was replaced with the white
background of this page. The following example works exactly the same
way but is even more striking, because your brain fills in the break in the
line.

If your visual cortex is capable of filling in the image in your blind spot in
this way, then chances are good that it does the same thing throughout
your field of vision. Consequently, what you are aware of seeing may not
be exactly what is actually being imprinted on your retina, as if it were just a
simple piece of film. Instead, what you are seeing may already have had
several "special effects" added.