Research Laboratory: Explaining Illusions 3.3.2

Question 1

What is Ames room?

Answer 1

A distorted room that creates visual illusions

-uses various distortions in size, shape, and distance to create illusion
-floor is slanted (illusion of height)

Question 2

What is Ebbinghaus illusion?

Answer 2

Shows that context is important to visual perception

-surrounding information to determine the size

(the circles are actually the same size)

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Question 3

What is an optical illusion?

Answer 3

Misinterpretations of visual stimuli

Question 4

What is Müller-Lyer illusion?

Answer 4

Two lines with arrows. One line seems to be longer than the other, however both lines are the same length despite the arrows

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Question 5

What is the Penrose triangle?

Answer 5

(Penrose Tribar) shape that can only exist on paper but cannot be created as a physical object

• the left side moving away from you and the right side moving towards you.
  -almost impossible to recreate as an object

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Question 6

What is a perceptual illusion?

Answer 6

Misinterpretations of sensory stimuli

-used to understand the human perceptual system