Visual Illusions Flashcards
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Visual Illusion
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a misperception of external visual stimuli that occurs as a result of a distortion or mistake when interpreting the stimuli
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Perceptual distortion
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an inconsistency, or ‘mismatch’, between a perceptual experience and physical reality; also called illusion
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Müller-Lyer illusion
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a visual illusion in which one of two lines of equal length, each of which has opposite shaped ends, is incorrectly perceived as being longer than the other
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Ames room illusion
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a perceptual misinterpretation involving a trapezium-shaped room which appears rectangular when viewed through a peephole using only one eye and people appear small or large, depending on where they stand in the room
