Visual Perception Paper

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Concerning the aspect of human vision, it has been long speculated the details of how people actually see things. There are three main aspects of vision: color, perception, and focus. Recent studies have detailed the idea that due to different sensitivities that have evolved over time, men and women see things differently. The purpose of this project will test the visual perception of males and females on different levels. These levels include color, perception, and focus. By testing each of these aspects using twenty males and twenty females ,all sixteen years old, and analyzing the results, we can clearly see which aspects are more prominent in males and females.

Our problem for this experiment is that if we test different aspects of
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The electromagnetic spectrum is a scale of all electromagnetic radiation, radiation being energy emitted in the forms of waves or particles. On this scale, there is a small range, 400 to 700 nm, that emit visible light (Mattson, 2013) Each wavelength in this range is specified to a certain color and causes us to view the wavelength as such. The visible light begins with a violet shade on the short side, 400 nm, and ends with red on the long, 700 nm (Henderson, n.d.) According to National Geographic, it has been found that women are usually better at distinguishing between colors then men are. This is because men require a longer wavelength to see the same shade of a color a women would at a shorter wavelength. “Since longer wavelengths are associated with "warmer" colors, an orange, for example, may appear redder to a man than to a woman,” this claim leads to what the experiment will be testing(Owen, 2012). In the experiment the subjects will be given a shade of orange to observe, and then given four additional shades of the same color, two with a longer wavelength and two with a higher wavelength, and asked to choose which one is the most similar with the first. The result of the test will either confirm or dispute the notion that men require a longer wavelength than