PERCEPTUAL CONSTANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perceptual constancy mean? 

• PERCEPTUAL CONSTANCY (noun)
  The noun PERCEPTUAL CONSTANCY has 1 sense:

1. (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation

  Familiarity information: PERCEPTUAL CONSTANCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERCEPTUAL CONSTANCY (noun)

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Meaning:

(psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

constancy; perceptual constancy

Hypernyms ("perceptual constancy" is a kind of...):

perception (the process of perceiving)

Domain category:

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perceptual constancy"):

brightness constancy (the tendency for a visual object to be perceived as having the same brightness under widely different conditions of illumination)

color constancy; colour constancy (the tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions)

shape constancy (the tendency to perceive the shape of a rigid object as constant despite differences in the viewing angle (and consequent differences in the shape of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye))

size constancy (the tendency to perceive the veridical size of a familiar object despite differences in their distance (and consequent differences in the size of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye))