People perceive horizontal and vertical orientations more than other kinds.

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Regularities that occur in physical aspects of the environment. They include:
- the oblique effect
- light-from above assumption

Physical regularities

Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience. Nelson Education.


Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience

The oblique effect

People assume that light usually comes from above and will view things in that manner. This is because light usually does come from above (whether from the sun or human-created light sources).

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