APP 3-8: Depth Perception & Perceptual Sets

Binocular cues

Information taken in by both eyes that aids in depth perception, including convergence and retinal disparity.

Monocular cues

Information about depth that relies on the input of just one eye--includes relative size, light and shadow, interposition, relative motion, and atmospheric perspective.

Learning-based inference

The view that perception is primarily shaped by learning (or experience), rather than by innate factors.

Perceptual set

Readiness to detect a particular stimulus in a given context--as when a person who is afraid interprets an unfamiliar sound in the night as a threat.

Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk

Psychologists who studied the development of depth perception in infants.