WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Opponent-process theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent-process_theory

    Opponent-process theory suggests that color perception is controlled by the activity of three opponent systems. In the theory, he postulated about three independent receptor types which all have opposing pairs: white and black, blue and yellow, and red and green. These three pairs produce combinations of colors for us through the opponent ...

  3. Opponent process - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent_process

    Opponent process. The opponent process is a color theory that states that the human visual system interprets information about color by processing signals from photoreceptor cells in an antagonistic manner. The opponent-process theory suggests that there are three opponent channels, each comprising an opposing color pair: red versus green, blue ...

  4. Habituation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habituation

    We [who?] also find that habituation is found in our emotional responses, called the opponent-process theory, proposed by researchers Richard Solomon and John Corbit (1974). It is known that responses by the subject tend to change by repetitively presenting certain stimuli.

  5. Solomon King (film) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_King_(film)

    Language. English. Budget. $140,000 [2] Solomon King is a 1974 independent blaxploitation film produced, written, co-directed, and starring Sal Watts, and featuring "Little Jamie" Watts, Claudia Russo, Felice Kinchelow, and Samaki Bennett, with baseball player Tito Fuentes as "Special Guest Star". The film was co-directed by Jack Bomay.

  6. Hedonic treadmill - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

    Behavioral/psychological approach. "Hedonic treadmill" is a term coined by Brickman and Campbell in their article, "Hedonic Relativism and Planning the Good Society" (1971), describing the tendency of people to keep a fairly stable baseline level of happiness despite external events and fluctuations in demographic circumstances. [2]

  7. Robert C. Solomon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Solomon

    Robert C. Solomon (September 14, 1942 – January 2, 2007) was a philosopher and business ethicist, notable author, and "Distinguished Teaching Professor of Business and Philosophy" at the University of Texas at Austin, where he held a named chair and taught for more than 30 years, authoring The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life (1976) and more than 45 other books and editions.

  8. Olga Korbut - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Korbut

    Olga Valentinovna Korbut [nb 1] (born 16 May 1955) is a retired Belarusian gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the " Sparrow from Minsk ", she won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the Soviet team, [1] and was the inaugural inductee to the ...

  9. Julian Corbett - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Corbett

    Julian Corbett. Sir Julian Stafford Corbett (12 November 1854 at Walcot House, Kennington Road, Lambeth – 21 September 1922 at Manor Farm, Stopham, Pulborough, Sussex [1]) was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose works helped shape the Royal Navy 's reforms of that era.