When Bill looks at his lamp alternately with his left eye and right eye, the image seems to jump from one position to another. This phenomenon illustrates ______

a) the Gestalt principle of similarity
b) retinal disparity
c) interposition
d) the Gestalt principle of proximity


ANS: B, The fact that, when we look at an object, each one of our two eyes receives a slightly different image of the object is known as retinal disparity.

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