Affective processes in perception.

Jenkin, Noel

doi:10.1037/h0045230

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“…In that movement, experimental evidence was put forward in favour of the alteration of perceptual processes (e.g., size judgements) by the observer's values. However, the results of those experiments were not easily reproduced and became interpreted as refl ecting response biases rather than a true alteration to perception (Jenkin, 1957;Tajfel, 1957). In many ways similar has been the debate concerning the Whorfi an hypothesis and Experiment 2 employs a task that has been used within that debate.…”

Section: Experiments 2: Categorical Perception In Visual Searchmentioning

confidence: 93%

Cultural Differences in Perception: Observations from a Remote Culture

2008

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Perceptual similarity was examined in a remote culture (Himba) and compared to that of Western observers. Similarity was assessed in a relative size judgement task and in an odd-one-out detection task. Th us, we examined the eff ects of culture on what might be considered low-level visual abilities. For both tasks, we found that performance was aff ected by stimuli that were culturally relevant to the tasks. In Experiment 1, we showed that the use of cow stimuli instead of the standard circles increased illusory strength for the Himba. In Experiment 2, only the Himba showed more accurate detection based on category diff erences in the displays. It is argued that that Categorical Perception in Experiment 2, based on its presumed Whorfi an origins, was the more reliable procedure for examining the eff ects of culture on perception.Similarity is an inherently unspecifi ed notion with an infi nity of ways that two objects may be decided to be similar (Goodman, 1972). Hence, we should not be surprised that diff erent experiences, whether in the same or diff erent cultures, promote similarity in diff erent ways. Here we examine perceptual similarity in a remote culture and compare performance to the same stimuli by observers from our Western culture. We examine similarity in a size judgement task and in an odd-one-out detection task. Th us, we are examining what might be considered low-level visual abilities. Yet, we shall show that the experience of the remote tribe allows both of these tasks to be dealt with diff erently from Western observers. In so doing, we return to an old debate made important in the New Look movement in psychology (Bruner and Goodman, 1947) that basic perceptual processes can be infl uenced by our value systems. A

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Section: Experiments 2: Categorical Perception In Visual Searchmentioning

confidence: 93%

Cultural Differences in Perception: Observations from a Remote Culture

2008

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“…What the person is asked to do is to establish what the incomplete, only partially revealed stimulus really is. Thus, as Jenkin (1957) has recognized, the attempts to impose meaning upon the stimuli are more attuned to reality and are less of a springboard for the expression of fantasy as compared with the responses to Rorschach inkblots and Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) pictures. The balance is tipped toward a more stimulus-based and realistic appraisal.…”

Section: Gemelli's Contributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cognitive Microgenesis

1991

Springer Series in Neuropsychology

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“…Jenkin (37) critically reviewed the literature from 1948 to 1956 and concluded that hunger or thirst, positive values, and noxious stimuli all influenced perception. He reported that a major problem was the ambiguity of definitions of perception.…”

Section: Perception and Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%