Psychology GCSE
Retinal disparity
What Retinal disparity means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Retinal disparity
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Each eye receives a slightly different image of the same object, and the size of that difference signals depth, with a large disparity read as near and a small disparity as far.
Topics that use Retinal disparity
- Perception (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Active construction of reality
- Ambiguity and illusory contours
- Ambiguity in perception
- Binocular depth perception
- Constructivist theory of perception
- Cues misapplied by the perceptual system
- Culture
- Detection versus interpretation
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