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. He tells the other half that they are looking at a daycare worker and a child in the daycare 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

Answer:

perceptual sets.    

Explanation:

Perceptual set: In psychology, the term perceptual set is determined as an individual's susceptibility or predisposition to perceive or recognize specific things in a certain manner or way. In other words, the perceptual set is described as an individual's propensity to notice only a few aspects of a particular object and therefore ignoring all other aspects or details.

In the question above, the given statement signifies that Professor Brandt is conducting a study on the perceptual sets.