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cognitive illusion

Subject: Science and technology, Psychology

An illusion in the cognitive domain, one of the best known examples being the size-weight illusion, although it is also a tactile illusion. See also experimentally induced false memory, ...

cognitive illusion

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A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2015
Subject:
Science and technology, Psychology, Medicine and health, Psychiatry
Length:
49 words

... illusion n. An illusion in the cognitive domain, one of the best known examples being the size–weight illusion , although it is also a tactile illusion. See also experimentally induced false memory , filled-duration illusion , illusory correlation , Moses illusion , rubber hand phenomenon , Rumpelstiltskin phenomenon , Tycho’s illusion , yolk phenomenon...

cognitive illusion

cognitive illusion  

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Science and technology, Psychology
An illusion in the cognitive domain, one of the best known examples being the size-weight illusion, although it is also a tactile illusion. See also experimentally induced false memory, ...
15 Children’s Books

15 Children’s Books   Reference library

Andrea Immel

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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Subject Reference
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2010
Subject:
History, Social sciences
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5,066 words
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Oxford University Press

... Children’s Classics from the Stars series produced by Rabbit Ears Productions), or a compact disc (e.g. John Lithgow ’s 2004 The Carnival of the Animals ). In *movable and *pop-up book s mechanical illustrations use sophisticated paper-engineering in order to create the illusion of movement and passage of time, to metamorphose an image, or to reveal the differences between the insides and outsides of things and bodies. Almost anything can now be grafted on to a *codex to encourage a more interactive reading experience, as the title of David A....

Cornsweet illusion

Cornsweet illusion  

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Another name for the Craik-O'Brien effect. [Named after the US cognitive scientist Tom Norman Cornsweet (born 1929) who studied it]
size–weight illusion

size–weight illusion  

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Science and technology, Psychology
A powerful cognitive illusion that causes approximately 98 per cent of people to judge an object to be heavier than another object of the same weight but much larger size when the two are lifted by ...
filled-duration illusion

filled-duration illusion  

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Science and technology, Psychology
A cognitive illusion that causes a specified period of time to be experienced as longer when many events are experienced during it than when it is relatively empty. For example, if two clicks mark ...
Tycho's illusion

Tycho's illusion  

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Science and technology, Psychology
A cognitive illusion that caused the cosmology of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) to appear physically impossible to his contemporary, the German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), ...
Moses illusion

Moses illusion  

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A cognitive illusion induced by a question such as: ‘How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the Ark?’ A substantial proportion of people (roughly 50 per cent) answer ‘two’ rather than ...
yolk phenomenon

yolk phenomenon  

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A slip of the tongue experimentally induced by phonological priming, first described in 1970 in an article in the journal Psychological Review by the US psychologists Gregory A(dams) Kimble ...
illusory contour

illusory contour  

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A visual contour in the absence of a lightness or colour gradient in the stimulus, computed in Area V2 of the visual cortex, generating form perception without a corresponding retinal image, the ...
Rumpelstiltskin phenomenon

Rumpelstiltskin phenomenon  

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The tendency for the naming of something to create the impression of imparting an understanding of it. It applies, for example, to the naming of mental disorders: a person who tells implausible lies ...
hard problem of consciousness

hard problem of consciousness  

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As I type these words, cognitive systems in my brain engage in visual and auditory information processing. This processing is accompanied by states of phenomenal consciousness, such as the auditory ...
iconic store

iconic store  

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Science and technology, Psychology
One of the sensory registers, allowing a visual image to persist for about half a second (depending on brightness) after its stimulus has ceased. It enables television, which presents 25 still images ...
experimentally induced false memory

experimentally induced false memory  

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Any repeatable technique for generating false memories, especially a procedure first reported in 1959 by the US psychologist James Earle Deese (1921–99) in an article in the Journal of Experimental ...
representation

representation  

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Media studies
[Latin repraesentare ‘to make present or manifest’]1. Depicting or ‘making present’ something which is absent (e.g. people, places, events, or abstractions) in a different form: as in paintings, ...
Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza  

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 (1632–77) Leading Dutch-Jewish philosopher,banned by the Portuguese Jewish community in 1656, probably because of his criticisms of the Scriptures (but possibly because of a financial dispute with ...
consciousness

consciousness  

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The state of being conscious (1, 2); the normal mental condition of the waking state of humans, characterized by the experience of perceptions, thoughts, feelings, awareness of the external world, ...
Cornsweet illusion

Cornsweet illusion n.   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2015
Subject:
Science and technology, Psychology, Medicine and health, Psychiatry
Length:
25 words

...illusion n. Another name for the Craik–O’Brien effect . [Named after the US cognitive scientist Tom Norman Cornsweet ( 1929–2017 ) who studied...

illusion

illusion n.   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)

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2015
Subject:
Science and technology, Psychology, Medicine and health, Psychiatry
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144 words

... n . According to a narrow definition, a misperception or misconception of a stimulus object, image, event, experience, or problem, or a stimulus that generates such a misperception or misconception; more generally, any misleading, deceptive, or puzzling stimulus or the experience that it generates. Perceptual illusions can arise through any sensory modality , but the most prominent are the auditory illusions , tactile illusions , and above all visual illusions . Illusions of conception rather than of perception are called cognitive illusions ....

filled-duration illusion

filled-duration illusion n.   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2015
Subject:
Science and technology, Psychology, Medicine and health, Psychiatry
Length:
74 words

...illusion n. A cognitive illusion that causes a specified period of time to be experienced as longer when many events are experienced during it than when it is relatively empty. For example, if two clicks mark the beginning and end of a period of silence (an unfilled interval), it tends to be perceived as shorter than the same objective interval filled with a sequence of clicks (a filled interval). Compare filled-space illusion...

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