Psychology GCSE
Visual illusions as evidence
What Visual illusions as evidence means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Visual illusions as evidence
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Illusions are used as evidence that the brain makes inferences about depth and size based on assumptions learned from the environment, so identical stimuli can be misperceived.
Topics that use Visual illusions as evidence
- 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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