6D Perceptual distortions, fallibility, and synesthesia

Question 1

Visual illusions

Answer 1

• Muller-Lyer

- Ames room

Question 2

Muller-Lyer

Answer 2

We misinterpret the illusion based on our familiarity with 3D objects in our life, such as the shape of corners in rooms. **Misuse past experience.

Question 3

Ames room

Answer 3

• Designed to distort perception by manipulating the use of depth cues = size constancy.
• The image cast on both retinas is the same because of end of the room is further away making both sides seem the same.
• Demonstrates our lack of ability to maintain size constancy when our depth cues are manipulated

Question 4

Judgment of flavours

Answer 4

Perceptual set, colour intensity, flavour.

Question 5

Perceptual set

Answer 5

Can cause perceptual distortions and when they cause us to taste something more or less intense than it actually is or that isn’t really there.

Question 6

Colour intensity

Answer 6

The more intense the colour of food, the more flavour we think we are tasting.

Question 7

Texture

Answer 7

Can change the intensity of the flavour and how much we enjoy the food.

Question 8

Synaesthesia

Answer 8

When you experience one of your senses through another such as hearing Alex and seeing green, or reading the words street and tasting citrus fruit.