Unit 3 (Visual Perception) - Fallibility of Perception and Illusion

Question 1

Visual Illusions

Answer 1

Consistent misinterpretations of external visual stimuli which highlights the fallibility of visual perception

Question 2

Muller-Lyer Illusion

Answer 2

An illusion where the length of the central line of a stimuli is misguided because of the liens attached to either end of the stimuli

Question 3

Ames Room Illusion

Answer 3

An illusion that causes difficulty in accurately perceiving size, based on an apparatus that manipulates depth cues

Question 4

Ponzo Illusion

Answer 4

An illusion where diagonal lines converging above two parallel lines leads observers to misjudge the length of the parallel lines

Question 5

Ambiguous Figures

Answer 5

A visual stimuli that can be interpreted in more than one way + gives rise to multistable perception

Question 6

Multistable Perception

Answer 6

Multiple, stable interpretations of the same stimuli

Question 7

Impossible Figures

Answer 7

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