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Bugelski & Alampay, 1961 The Rat Man study - Coggle Diagram
Bugelski & Alampay, 1961 The Rat Man study
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Aim
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Does priming participants with a series of pictures prior to showing the ambiguous image influence perception?
Theories
Perceptual set: predisposition to perceive stimuli in a specific way according to certain preconceptions.
Limitations
The use of a mixed-measures design was not ideal, as it may have primed participants for the real aim of the research.
The conditions were not counterbalanced as part of the repeated measures design, which may have affected the results in terms of order effects
Conclusions
It was concluded that related experience can alter a person’s perception and perceptual set on the rat-man image.
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Results
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81% saw man, suggesting priming to recognising human faces