The Ames room, in which people are seen to get small or enlarge as they move about, demonstrates that our perception of the world depends strongly on

A) the assumptions we make about it.
B) the actual, distal stimuli.
C) the proximal stimulus elements.
D) bottom-up processing.

Ames Room

A distorted room that creates an optical illusion of objects growing or shrinking as they move across the room.

Bottom-up Processing

A cognitive approach in which perception starts with stimuli input from the environment and works upwards to form a higher-level analysis.