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Unit 3 – Sensation and Perception
Topic 3.4
What does "perceptual constancy" refer to?
An illusion where we perceive movement in slightly varying images shown in rapid succession.
Our tendency to see familiar objects as having consistent color, size, and shape regardless of changes in lighting, distance or angle of perspective.
The natural phenomenon where our brains organize what we see into objects that stand out from their backgrounds.
The idea that parallel lines look like they come together in the distance due to depth perception.
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