List of psychological experiments on perception! Experiment # 1. Selection and Grouping in Perception: Our perception of stimuli depends on a series of organisational processes. This aspect has been studied extensively by the gestalt psychologists. The process of organisation depends on a number of factors, due to which our perception of the same stimulus elements differs on different occasions. The [...]
We shall presently be discussing a few points of differences between perception of a person and a perception of an object. Incidentally, sometimes other terms like social perception, social cognition and person cognition have been employed by some writers to mean more or less person perception. But here again we will see that there are differences. Basically, the term person [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the theory of cognitive dissonance. A theory which primarily tries to explore the relationship between one's prior perception and attitudes on the one hand and actual experience on the other is the theory of cognitive dissonance propounded by Leon Festinger. The theory has certainly stimulated a lot of research in relation to [...]
