Ability of Grade IV Students of Bancod
Elementary School
S.Y. 2011-2012”
Diane Claire P. Abutin
Arleth V. Barone
An experimental research presented to the faculty of the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, CvSU Indang, Cavite in Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Psychology with contribution # ER6 prepared under supervision of Ms. Alma Fatima Reyes.
INTRODUCTION
Do you feel anxious in a yellow room? Does the color blue make you feel calm and relaxed? Artists and interior designers have long understood how color can dramatically affect moods, feelings and emotions. It is a powerful communication tool and can be used to signal action, influence mood and cause physiological reactions. Certain colors can raise blood pressure, increase metabolism or cause eyestrain.
Color provides us with much of our information concerning the world in which we live. Color is what we see or more important, what we think we see. (Nickerson, 2006)
According to Nickerson (2006), to experience color vision there must be some sort of receptor and response mechanism to receive and interpret light.
Color is light, which travels to us in waves from the sun, on the same electro-magnetic spectrum as radio and television waves, microwaves, x-rays etc. Light is the only part of the spectrum that we can see, which perhaps explains why we take it less seriously than the invisible power of the other rays. Sir Isaac Newton demonstrated that light travels in waves, when he shone white light through a triangular prism and, when the different wavelengths of light refracted at different angles; he was able to demonstrate that the colors of the rainbow (the spectrum) are the component parts of light.
When light strikes any colored object, the object will absorb only the wavelengths that exactly match its own atomic