`An Experiment About Perceptual Sets`

An Experiment about Perceptual Sets

Introduction

In this beautiful , and at the same time , challenging world we have there is no single thing that really remains constant . Everything indeed changes . Temperature , economy , politics , education , health , sports entertainment , news and any other things experience change . The color of the sky , the grade a student receives , height , weight , pressure - everything really changes . And the change itself is also changing . Even the past also changes . Since the past can not really be directly studied , our past can also be changed . What we are

studying is not the past , but the relics and records of that particular past . And those relics can appear differently to different people . What may be true to you about a certain picture of the past , can be the opposite thing for another person 's perspectives . Given for example a picture which was picked from a bunch of evidences and relics about a certain event in the past , which projected a man holding a knife on his hands , a bloody kid directly after the man and a wounded dog beside the kid , this picture can mean and tell so many stories . Two brief messages it will send to its lookers can be the man killed the kid with his knife and the dog got wounded as it tried to save his master kid . Another event that can be formed is an irony . It can converse that the man tried to save the kid from the rabid dog but his rescue to the kid has been late . These are just some of the evident manifestations of this particular and epidemic change . A religious people may present a contradiction and exception to this idea . He may claim that there is still a thing that does not change . And that is the undying love of God . But I would like to correct that . Yes , God 's love is undying but his love also changes . In each and everyday of our lives , God loves us more and more

I think the gist is that , there is really nothing that is permanent Everything is indeed changing such as people 's perceptions towards different things . What one 's eyes see can not be seen by other people 's eyes . And what other people can feel may not be felt by the other one These all lead to the definition of Perceptual Set , in which stereotyping is one of its forms

Perceptual set is the state of having different views towards a certain common thing . One can see it as a sign of money , while the other one can see it as a symbol of threatening and disastrous events . The interpretation entirely lies on the eyes of the lookers , their status in life , their needs , their wants , their fears . There are a lot of factors The difference arises thereafter these different people express what they feel and what they see

As what Walter Lippmann 's conception of stereotype perceptual set conveys , it is really about definition of...