pyscology cue cards 4/10/19

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what was the aim of Bruner and Minturns study?
if seeing a particular object makes you more likely to see it at a later time
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what was the method of Bruner and Minturns study?
laboratory experiment. volunteers. showed people an ambiguous figure in the middle of letters (abc) or numbers(12,13,14) could be seen as 13 or a letter B.then people had to say what they saw and write it down.
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what was the result of Bruner and Minturns study?
if saw group of letters first, more likely to saw/write middle ambiguous figure was B. if saw numbers first, more likely to say/write number 13.
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what was the conclusion of Bruner and Minturns study?
expection influences perception by changing context visual information is presented.
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whats a strength of Bruner and Minturns study?
real world application. explains errors people make/eyewitness testimony of crimes may not be trustworthy as could be recalling what they expect to happen. it helps us avoid errors of judgement
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whats a weakness of Bruner and Minturns study?
sample is biased, people volunteers. more likely to be enthusiastic/ show demand characteristics by trying to guess the aim in order to please the researcher. participants do not represent the general population, so you cannot generalise the results.
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laboratory experiment. volunteers. showed people an ambiguous figure in the middle of letters (abc) or numbers(12,13,14) could be seen as 13 or a letter B.then people had to say what they saw and write it down.

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what was the method of Bruner and Minturns study?

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if saw group of letters first, more likely to saw/write middle ambiguous figure was B. if saw numbers first, more likely to say/write number 13.

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expection influences perception by changing context visual information is presented.

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real world application. explains errors people make/eyewitness testimony of crimes may not be trustworthy as could be recalling what they expect to happen. it helps us avoid errors of judgement

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