Psychology - Palmer (1975) - Perception

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1. What is a perceptual set?

  • When a piece of information is passed from one person to another
  • The tendency to notice some things more than others.
  • When a participant is given a story to remember
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2. What type of experiment was it?

  • Natural
  • Laboratory
  • Field

3. Weaknesses of the study

  • Real life not as ambiguous as stimuli and studies not generalisable.
  • Participants what they were doing (may have tried harder) and fewer results since some data could not be used.
  • Unfamiliar material chosen and changes over time unfair.

4. What was the dependent variable?

  • The number of correctly identified objects.
  • Whether story could be remembered accurately or not.
  • Participants' drawing compared to original.

5. Did participants identify more objects after seeing an appropriate or inappropriate context?

  • Appropriate context
  • Inappropriate context
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