Factors Affecting Perception Flashcards

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What is individual differences ?

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-affected by life experience, people are more likely to perceive things the way they have in the past

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What is a hallucination?

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Things that we perceive in the absence of real sensations, eg, a dream

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What is a perceptual set ?

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The tendency to notice something more than others

E.g if your scared of spiders you will more likely find a spider Compared to someone who isn’t scared of spiders

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What can a perceptual set be affected by ?

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  • motivation
  • emotion
  • expectations
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Case studies for evidence of perceptual set ?

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1) GILCHRIST AND NESBERG, when participants were hungry, they perceived food as brighter and more vivid
2) BRUNER AND MINTURN, shows same ambiguous figure, one group were shown the letter B alongside it and the other were shown 13

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What is motivation ?

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-people are more likely to perceive what they want to perceive
Eg, someone who is a fan of a band will like their new song more

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What is emotion ?

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-fears and worries can affect perception, such as a child thinking a shadow looks like a monster
Eg, Gilchrist and Nesbergs Study

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What are expectations ?

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Having a prediction based on a past experience(s)

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Hudson’s theory

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CULTURE AFFECTS EXPECTATIONS
-villagers in Zambia couldn’t easily perceive occlusion, suggesting that depth perception may depend on culture
HOWEVER IT CANT BE GENERALISED TO PERCEPTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE

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