things affecting perception

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Hudson’s study: aim

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Find out if different people from different cultures interpreted information from different pictures differently

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Hudson’s procedure:

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He showed 2D drawings to people from different cultures and educated backgrounds, drawings showed and antelope, man with a spear

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Hudson’s: findings

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Both black and white schooled participants were most likely to perceive depth than unschooled participants
white schooled participants were more likely to perceive depth than black schooled participants

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Hudson’s conclusion:

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results say that cultural differences affect perceptual set because people from different cultures use depth cues differently when perceiving 2d drawings

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weaknesses of Hudson’s study

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One weakness of research with people from different cultures is that tasks and instructions might not make sense to them

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Hudson weakness of study: explain

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Language barrier between the researcher and the participants. researchers rely on translators and it may not be translated correctly

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Hudson: problems with method

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some of the participants were confused with the 2d drawings, some people had never seen paper before

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McGinnis study: aim

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Wanted to know whether things that cause us anxiety are less likely to be noticed than things that are emotionally neutral

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McGinnis study: procedure

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Eight male and eight female students made up the participants and they were shown a series of flashcards some of the words were neutral some caused an emotional reaction

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McGinnis: results

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He found that participants took longer to recognise the offensive words than the neutral words

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McGinnis: conclusion

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This study suggests that emotion is a factor of perceptual set

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McGinnis: point

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One strength of this study is that it used an object measurement of emotion

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McGinnis: explain

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Many studies are limited because they are based on self-report methods. Do not use participants opinions as they may be biased

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McGinnis: Weakness: point

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One weakness is that delayed recognition may be more to do with embarrassment than defence

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McGinnis: weakness: explanation

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The longer time taken to identify taboo words in the McGinnis study has been explained by the perceptual system “ Blocking out the emotional content of the words” The participants hesitated in giving there responses because they felt embarrassed and they were uncomfortable repeating rude words in a research study

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Gilcheist and Nesburg: motavation

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Find out what effect food would have on perception with food related images 🥙🥘

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Gilchrist:procedure

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26 undergraduates volunteered to go without food for 20 hours. They were shown 4 slides of a meal 🍆. Each of them were shown for 15 seconds, they were shown (steak, fries, chicken, hamburger, spagetti) projector got turned off and was dimmed

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Gilchrist: results

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Food deprived participants said they perceived the picture lighter than they were

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Burner and minter: aim

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Interested to see whether expectation is an important factor in perceptual set

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Burner and minter: procedure

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Participants were shown sequences of letters, the group that saw the sequence as numbers were more likely to report the ambiguous as number 13. When participants were asked to draw the people that saw number dre number 13 and the people that drew letters drew b