4.10: Chapter Exercises
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Chapter Exercises
- Think of a case where you were certain that you saw something or someone, but where on closer examination, you discovered that you hadn’t really seen that person or thing at all (or at least that the thing or person you saw looked very different from the way that you first thought they did). Write a paragraph describing this situation; include a discussion of factors that might have led to the misperception.
- We have some tendency to selectively perceive what we expect and hope to see. Describe, and comment on, an example in which you (or a person close to you) have done this. What cognitive or motivational factors were at work in your perception?
- Context can influence our expectations and so it can influence our perceptual set. Describe one way in which you might set up a context in which you think people would be more likely to see the vase rather than the face. Now describe a context where people might be more likely to see the face. How would you test your hypotheses about this?
- Context can influence our expectations and so it can influence our perceptual set. Describe one way in which you might set up a context in which you think people would be more likely to see the old woman rather than the young woman. Now describe a context where people might be more likely to see the young woman. How would you test your hypotheses about this?
- The employees of mental health facilities took, on average, three weeks to discover that the mentally healthy person who had been admitted with schizophrenia did not actually have that diagnosis. The patients were much quicker to see through the ruse. What do you think explains this difference?
- Describe a case where your expectations or desires or the context you were in seems to have led you to interpret something you felt (with your skin, your tactile sense) one way that, with different expectations or set, might have been interpreted another way.
- What do you think caused you to interpret it the way that you did?
- How could you test the hypothesis you constructed to answer the previous question? Give similar examples involving taste and smell.
- Describe a case where your expectations or desires or the context you were in seems to have led you to interpret your emotions or mood one way that, with different expectations or set, might have been interpreted another way.
- What do you think caused you to interpret it the way that you did?
- How could you test the hypothesis you constructed to answer the previous question?