SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
VISION SENSORY AND PERCEPTUAL PROCESSING
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many trees
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wide horizons
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building with straight lines and corners
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more men than women
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Müller-Lyer illusion is one of the most famous optical illusions in psychology. It consists of two sticks, one framed by closed fins and one framed by open fins. After seeing the illusion, viewers usually estimate that the stick with two open fins is longer, even though the sticks are actually the same length.
Detailed explanation-2: -Müller-Lyer’s eponymous illusion had deceived thousands of people from WEIRD societies for decades, but it wasn’t universal. The biological basis of how these different groups of people saw the illusion is identical, but the response was totally different. The success or failure of the illusion is a cultural effect.
Detailed explanation-3: -Europeans and Americans were the most susceptible to the illusion, and Kalahari hunter-gatherers among the least susceptible. They also point to wide variation in susceptibility to the illusion, across populations and age groups.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Müller-Lyer effect, the apparent difference in the length of a line as the result of its adornment with arrowheads or arrow tails, is the best known and most controversial of the classical geometrical illusions.