I should be able to get a copy, thanks.
>Hi Erin,
>I came across the article when I was doing intensive research into the
>psychology and physiology of perception many years ago. The article was
>from The Journal of Personality, vol 18, 1949(!!!)pp 206-223 by Jerome S.
>Bruner and Leo Postman, a Harvard University study, "On the Perception of
>Incongruity: A Paradigm." If you can not get a copy of it but have a fax
>machine I can fax you my copy.
>Gary
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Erin Noonan <enoonan@kent.edu>
>To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
>Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 10:10 PM
>Subject: RE: MD Understanding Intellect
>
>
>> hey Gary,
>>
>> Could you give me a reference for that card experiment.
>> I am doing some work on how expectations affect our
>> perceptions and are collecting studies like that.
>>
>> I agree with your statements but just because we don't perceive or like
>> something doesn't mean that it isn't part of Reality.
>> I think it has to be read as a heuristic or worded as
>> my experience of reality is what i like.
>>
>> erin
>>
>>
>> >
>> >Therefore we perceive what we like, what we expect,
>> >what we value. Upon encountering something very new,
>> >something anomolus we may not 'see' that thing at all.
>> > We may 'choose' to see what we are more familiar with
>> >and replace the actual real event/object with a
>> >pattern we 'like'/we expect. This is how 'reality is
>> >what we like' is a "true" statement.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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