Explain how perceptual illusions can allow us to explore per

Explain how perceptual illusions can allow us to explore perception. (a) Describe the Müeller-Lyer illusion. (b) Describe the Moon illusion.    *****psychology

Solution

A) Müller-Lyer illusion: It is an optical illusion containing of a stylized arrow. When observer are asked to place a mark on the point at the midpoint, they always place it more regarding the \"tail\" end. The illusion was designed by Franz Carl Müller-Lyer (1857–1916), a German sociologist, in 1889.

B) The moon\'s perpendicular angular diameter at the horizon is even lesser, generate the moon to appear \"flattened.\" At the horizon the brightness must pass through a substantial distance in our atmosphere than when the moon is higher in the sky. This size change is also opposite (and much smaller than) the psychological moon illusion!