Psychology GCSE
Types of visual illusion
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Images or arrangements that make the perceptual system report something different from the physical reality of the stimulus, including size, figure-ground, ambiguity and illusory-contour illusions.
Topics that use Types of visual illusion
- 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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