Unit 3 topic 2- fallibility of visual perception

Question 1

visual illusion

Answer 1

consistent misinterpretation of external visual stimuli

Question 2

muller Lyer illusion

Answer 2

length of central line misjudged because of lines attached to either end of stimuli

Question 3

Ames Room illusion

Answer 3

causes difficulty in accurately perceiving size, based on apparatus that manipulates depth cues
maintain shape constancy of room at the expense of size constancy of people inside room

Question 4

ponzo illusion

Answer 4

diagonal lines converging above two parallel lines leads observers to misjudge the length of parallel lines. misapply depth principles

Question 5

Ambiguous figures

Answer 5

visual stimuli that can be interpreted in multiple ways.

multi stable perception- multiple stable interpretations of same stimuli

Question 6

impossible figures

Answer 6

visual stimuli that generates a perception that could not occur in reality, by manipulating pictorial depth cues.