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Bugelski & Alampay, 1961 The Rat Man study - Coggle Diagram
- One group of participants shown series of face sketches and then an ambiguous rat-man face
- Other group shown animal sketches and then the ambiguous rat-man sketch
- To investigate the influence of the perceptual set.
- Does priming participants with a series of pictures prior to showing the ambiguous image influence perception?
- Perceptual set: predisposition to perceive stimuli in a specific way according to certain preconceptions.
- 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
- It was concluded that related experience can alter a person’s perception and perceptual set on the rat-man image.
- The priming of participants will predispose them to seeing the set they had been primed to see.
- Majority of face sketch people identified the rat-man sketch as an old man
- Majority of animal sketch people identified the rat-man sketch as a rat
- 81% saw man, suggesting priming to recognising human faces
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