34 Chapter 7: Discussion Questions / Chapter Assignments
Sherry Neville-MacLean
Chapter 7 questions
- What parts of the information you learn in this chapter would you expect to apply to other
- What does it mean to say the neuronal components are “swept away” from the center of our vision at the fovea?
- Based on the information about cone and rod photoreceptor cells, indicate 2 examples of your own life when you would expect each of these cells to be more active than the other. Justify your answer.
- Do you think the colour deficiencies listed in Figure 7.12 are the only deficiencies? Why or why not?
- Develop a mix and match question that allows you to consider the names, order, and function of the 5 neurons of the retina. Share with someone. Give feedback to each other.
- Consider Figure 7.19. What type of injury would result in quadrantanopia? What type of injury would result in hemianopsia? What does the first set of circles representing vision (on the far right side of the figure) represent? Which eye is not getting visual stimulation? Would we use the same circles if the opposite eye was not getting visual stimulation but that one was?
