A Mental Predisposition To Perceive One Thing And Not Another.

Question: Whta is Perceptual Set
Answer: - It is a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.
- A sent of mental tendencies and assumptions that greatly affects (top-down) what we perceive.
perceptual set can influence what we hear, taste,feel and see.
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Question: what determines our perceptual set?
Answer: -Through experience we form concepts or schema, that organize and allow us to interpreter unfamiliar information.
-Our pre-existing schemas for old women and young women for monsters and tree limbs all influence how we interpret ambiguous sensations with top down processing.
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Question: How are our perception influenced by our emotions and motivations?
Answer: hearing sad rather than happy music can predispose people to perceive sad meaning in spoken homo-phonic words--- mourning rather than morning, die rather than dye, pain rather than pane.
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Question: What are the four things that our perception is influenced, top down.
Answer: 1) Our expectations
2) By context
3) emotions
4) motivations
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Question: What is perceptual organization?
Answer: We organize perception from sensory organization.
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Question: What is Gestalt laws?
Answer: -Founded by German thinkers Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler and Kurt Koffka.
-It focus on how people interpret the world.
-According to Gestalt psychology, the whole is different than the sum of its parts.

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Question: What is form perception?
Answer: -It is organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from the surroundings.
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Question: What is Extrasensory perception (ESP)?
Answer: The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input; includes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.
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Question: What is parapsychology?
Answer: The study of paranormal phenomena including ESP and psychokinesis.
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Question: What is the field of study that researches claims of extrasensory perception (ESP)?
Answer: it is parapsychology, because it studies paranormal phenomena that are claimed to occur apart from nay sensory input?
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Question: How do our expectations, contexts, emotions, and motivation influence our perceptions?
Answer: Perceptual set is a mental predisposition that functions as a lens through which we perceive the world.

Our learned concepts (schemas) prime us to organize and interpret ambiguous stimuli in certain ways.

Our physical and emotional context, as well as our motivation, can create expectations and color our interpretation of events and behaviors.
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Question: What are the claims of ESP, and what have most research psychologists concluded after putting these claims to the test?
Answer: Parapsychology is the study of paranormal phenomena, including extrasensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis.

The three most testable forms of ESP are telepathy (mind-to-mind communication), clairvoyance (perceiving remote events), and precognition (perceiving future events).

Skeptics argue that (1) to believe in ESP, you must believe the brain is capable of perceiving without sensory input; (2) Researchers have been unable to replicate ESP phenomena under controlled conditions.
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