Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Perceptual Constancies

Perceptual Constancies- the tendency of animals and humans to see familiar objects as having standard shape, size, color, or location. Regardless of changes in the angle of perception, distance, or lighting.

Size Constancy- within a certain range people's perception of one particular objects size will not change regardless distance or video size.

Brightness Constancy- a sheet of white paper seen in the bright sunlight and reflects a very different amount of light on the same sheet of paper

Shape Constancy- refers to the phenomenon in which the percept of the shape of a given object remains despite changes in the shape of the retinal image

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