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law of constancy
Updated on 04/19/2018
the principle that visual stimuli retain a constant appearance despite alterations in stimulus conditions, such as the level of illumination (
brightness constancy
) or the angle subtended on the retina (
size constancy
).
in psychoanalytic theory, see
principle of constancy
.
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