Question

Professor Brandt is conducting a study on _______________. He shows his study participants a picture of an adult-child pair. He tells half of the participants that they are looking at a parent and her child, while he tells the other half that they are looking at a day-care worker and a child in the day-care center. The group that thinks the pair is related rates them as looking more alike than the group that thinks they are NOT related.

Answer 1

Perceptual set

Step-by-step explanation:

Perceptual set: It is defined as the propensity to notice, perceive or interpret few aspects of the accessible sensory data and therefore ignore others.

In psychology, the perceptual set describes a person's various expectations that configure experience by making a person sensitive to a particular type of data or information. The perceptual set is also known as perceptual expectancy, and it happens in different senses.