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... > social science subjects > psychology > cognitive psychology > perception (psychology) > illusory perceptions > atmospheric phenomena
... > social science subjects > psychology > cognitive psychology > learning and perception > cognitive processes > perception (psychology) > visual perception > atmospheric phenomena
... > social science subjects > psychology > cognitive psychology > perception (psychology) > visual perception > atmospheric phenomena

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atmospheric phenomena  

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  • People hear some remarkable phenomena, such as thunder, and see some remarkable phenomena, such as sun rays, glories, and rainbows, in the atmosphere. These phenomena are studied mainly by physicists and involve the disciplines of atmospheric acoustics and atmospheric or meteorological optics.Atmospheric phenomena are interesting to perceptionists because perception sometimes disagrees with reality (making these phenomena seem to be illusions) and because they give an opportunity to test the generality of perceptual principles discovered in the laboratory. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Atmospheric Phenomena]

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