I am a really curious person and I have always wondered how do blind people "see" colors I mean if they were born blind, and can you teach a blind person colors and how?
2007-02-23 11:09:00 · 7 answers · asked by sugarkees12 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
You wouldn't teach them the color, but you could teach them by association. Red is like hot, blue is like cold. In their mind the would have their own mental picture of what the color is.
2007-02-23 11:17:57 · answer #1 · answered by gymfreak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually colors have certain "heat signatures." We did this in school a long time back and with practice you can feel a difference in fabrics and papers of different colors that are otherwise the same. Whether or not a person who was born blind would find this useful, I don't know.
2007-02-23 19:18:18 · answer #2 · answered by herogoggles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they can't see colors. they're "blind"
color blind people may only see spectrum of colors as we perceive a grayscale, in the form of shades of light tan to med brown, or dark brown to black.
2007-02-23 19:19:22 · answer #3 · answered by carbazon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they do not know what color is,unless they become blind later on in life and they can remember but not see
2007-02-23 19:23:57 · answer #4 · answered by Dove4ever 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
blind people can not see colour, nor do they know what different colours are. You can not teacher a blind person colour, since they can not see it to recognize it.
2007-02-23 19:18:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I imagine that their imagination makes colors up...uh,not to be redundant or anything.
2007-02-23 19:17:11 · answer #6 · answered by MaryBeth 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they don't. and no, you cant teach them colors. Just as you can't hear, or be taught to hear, microwaves.
2007-02-23 19:15:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋