Question

Jill expects the children to misbehave after eating a bowl of sugary candy. She notices kids running and loudly laughing on the playground, but she fails to notice the children quietly reading on the bench, under the tree. Her perceptions demonstrate her reliance on ________ to make sense of her environment. (5 points)

unbiased observations of behavior
sensory information over perception
her own perceptual set
visual stimuli in the environment
olfactory stimuli in the environment

Answer 1

Perceptual set

Step-by-step explanation:

Perceptual set is the tendency to perceive certain things and ignore others, in this case Jill is known as a 'selector' because she has certain expectations and focuses her attention on the loud children instead of the quiet ones.