| Definition | Term |
| Part of the eye that controls the pupil as well as eye color | |
| Part of the eye that brings in light | |
| Depends on the distance object is from the observer | |
| Cone most sensitive to red light | |
| Thin inner surface in the back of the eye which transduces light into neural signals | |
| Photoreceptor which responds at low levels of light and is bad at discriminating in fine detail | |
| The appx. number of rods in the eye | |
| Principle that humans are excellent at detecting faces but only when right-side up | |
| The tendency to see contours even when they don't exist | |
| A principle which employs that in a visual search task, the target stimulus will pop out | |
| The system our vision divides by; illustrated by reversible and ambiguous figures | |
| Gestalt principle which states that the tendency is to interpret intersecting lines as continuous | |
| Cone most sensitive to blue light | |
| The minimum amount of change required in order to detect a difference between intensities of stimuli | |
| Cone most sensitive to green light | |