Psychology GCSE
Ambiguity and illusory contours
What Ambiguity and illusory contours means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Ambiguity and illusory contours
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An ambiguous line drawing that flips between two orientations, as in the Necker cube, or a bright triangle that seems present although no triangle is drawn, as in the Kanizsa triangle.
Topics that use Ambiguity and illusory contours
- Perception (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Active construction of reality
- 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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