Psychology GCSE
Active construction of reality
What Active construction of reality means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Active construction of reality
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Perception uses inferences from visual cues and past experience to build a model of reality rather than passively copying the world.
Topics that use Active construction of reality
- Perception (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Ambiguity and illusory contours
- Ambiguity in perception
- Binocular depth perception
- Constructivist theory of perception
- Cues misapplied by the perceptual system
- Culture
- Detection versus interpretation
- Direct perception
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