Psychology QCAA (2019) Readings

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Perceptual set – experience and recognition of pictures

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Deregowski, JB, Muldrow ES & Muldrow, WF 1972

Pictorial representation in a remote Ethiopian population

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Ambiguous picture of rat-man. Aim to identify the importance on perception sets (past experiences, context, motivation and emotional state)

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Bugelski, BR & Alampay, DA 1961

The role of frequency in developing perceptual sets

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Visual perception – perceptual sets

Past experience, context, motivation and emotional state

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Bugelski, BR & Alampay, DA 1961

The role of frequency in developing perceptual sets

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Investigated if perception of picture relies on learning

Quasi experiment – western and African

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Deregowski, JB 1972, ‘Pictorial perception and culture’

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Evaluation/Significance

Replication of Hudson’s experiment

An example of cross-cultural (quasi) research – helps researchers account for innate or learned skills

Biased and ethnocentric – did not account for ways in which Africans may perceive

Praised for investigating cultural diversity in perception which had been ignored by mainstream psychology at that time

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Deregowski, JB 1972, ‘Pictorial perception and culture’

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Investigated remote populations in Ethiopia – highlands and lowlands tribes – investigated recognition of familiar object recognition in pictures – different exposures to different animals depending on where they lived

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Deregowski, JB, Muldrow ES & Muldrow, WF 1972

Pictorial representation in a remote Ethiopian population

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The visuo-spatial sketchpad (inner eye) was said to store and process information in a visual or spatial form.

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Baddeley, AD & Hitch, G 1974

Chapter: Working memory

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The central executive was said to:

• Drive the whole system, and allocate data to the subsystems: the visuo-spatial sketchpad and phonological loop

Deal with cognitive tasks, such as mental arithmetic and problem-solving.

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Baddeley, AD & Hitch, G 1974

Chapter: Working memory

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Split-type drawing to represent animals – 2D perceivers preferred this to perspective – only shown one side of animal

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Deregowski, JB 1972

Pictorial perception and culture

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Able to recognise correctly (but gradually and with effort) the animals depicted but some differences between highlands and lowlands (lowlands had greater familiarity of animals

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Deregowski, JB, Muldrow ES & Muldrow, WF 1972

Pictorial representation in a remote Ethiopian population