Question

Your companion on a train ride through Illinois notices that telephone poles near the tracks appear to be passing by very quickly, while telephone poles in the distance are passing by much more slowly. This is an example of ________.A) motion parallax

B) accomodation
C) speed perception
D) speed constancy

Answer 1

A) motion parallax

Step-by-step explanation:

Motion parallax is a visual perception while we are in motion with respect to our surrounding in which the surroundings objects nearer to our eyes appear to move or pass at a faster pace than the objects farther to our eyes during the motion.

This can also be understood as the angular displacement of the objects while our motion. The objects nearer to our eyes have a rapid change in the angular position than the objects far away from us.