PSYC 1010 Quiz: vision reivsion notes

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Aviva Goldberg

Document Summary

Another monocular depth cue we may use involves us perceiving things which are closer to be larger and this depth cue is known as relative size. The picture below of the pool balls demonstrates this as well as the next monocular cue which is occlusion. Occlusion is another depth cue which involves one object covering or overlapping another when this happens we perceive the object that is overlapping the other to be closer. The fourth depth cue we may use is known as a linear perspective. This involves straight lines pointing towards a single point in the horizon known as the vanishing point. This helps us understand distance in a landscape for example. Binocular depth cues identify how far away things are using two eyes. We see two images from each eye which are almost identical and it is by comparing these two images and their differences, our brain is able to work out how far away things are.