Perception and Constancies
- the method by which the sensations experienced at any given moment are interpreted and organized in some meaningful fashion.
- the tendency to interpret an object as always being the same actual size, regardless of its distance.
- the tendency to interpret the shape of an object as being constant, even when its shape changes on the retina.
– the tendency to perceive the apparent brightness of an object as the same even when the light conditions change.
LO 3.13 Perception and perceptual constancies