A Study of Roy G. Biv's Influences

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A Study of Roy G. Biv’s Influences I. Introduction a. What effects do colors have on the fully mature human brain and its emotional responses? b. Colors in rainbow c. Picasso; “Colors, like features, follow the change of the emotions II. Red a. Peretti b. Rosenblatt c. Straker d. Rohrer III. Yellow a. Rosenblatt b. Straker IV. Blue a. Rohrer b. Straker c. Rosenblatt d. Peretti V. Conclusion A Study of Roy G. Biv’s Influences The seven colors of a rainbow make up the name “Roy G. Biv.” To get these colors; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, all one needs is a source of light and a recent rainstorm. Although a rainbow does not hold all of the basic colors recognized by many children or adults, it shows a unique showcase of the colors shown by refracting, or bending, of light as it passes from one substance to another. The bending is caused by the differences in density between the two objects (“Refraction”). How one person sees a rainbow or an individual color by itself cannot be easily described between two people as the same shade, nor can it have the same mental influence. Defined by D. and S. Hockenbury, color is the perceptual experience of different wavelengths of light, involving hue, saturation (purity), and brightness and intensity (99). Pablo Picasso said that colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions (qtd. in Rosenblatt). The average year of full brain maturity is about the age of twenty-five, although color is noticed by all ages. What effects do the primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) have on the fully mature human brain and its emotional responses? The first color discussed is red. On average, anger is closely associated with red, along with strife and danger, while also holding a feeling of warmth (Peretti 1). Nicknamed “the
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