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An Investigation into Perceptual Set. Emily Collins Centre number: 1409 Candidate number: 8146 Abstract I conducted an experiment to investigate the theory of perceptual set which is an aspect of the top down theory of perception. I based this experiment on a similar one conducted by Bruner and Minturn in 1955 who tried to demonstrate that immediate visual and environmental context can effect perception of an ambiguous figure. Their results proved this to be the case and this experiment is used to support the theory of perceptual set. In my version of this experiment, I hoped to produce similar results to prove that previous environmental stimuli have an affect on the perception of following visual data. The hypothesis of this experiment was: The immediate physical context will directly affect the way in which later data is perceived. I used an experiment as my research method, as considering the topic of this investigation it would be...

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