I was thinking about that just a moment ago! I was walking down the hall to get my afternoon coffee and it occurred to me that I named the file "ManOnHorse" and that name appears in the tab of the browser! Darn! Talk about a give-away. Okay, an easy fix. Thanks Carol.
Michael > I tried it too, and tried condition one first and condition two second. > I never did see the horse UNTIL I remembered that the name of the file > said something about a horse (so I guess I cheated). I loved the idea > and I agree that you probably need the picture of the horse for some > sort of priming to occur. And you need to change the name of the file... > Carol > > > > > > Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. > Professor of Psychology > Chair, Department of Psychology > St. Ambrose University > Davenport, Iowa 52803 > > phone: 563-333-6482 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:25 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re: [tips] Feedback on Perceptual Set online experiment > > Michael, > > I would say (with tongue-in-cheek) that the experiment worked perfectly: > your subconscious mind had to time to mull over the images of the > animals and by the second time through the experiment when you saw the > horse your > brain had it all figured out. I don't know how to explain it. That's > not what's supposed to happen according to what I know about perceptual > set research. Maybe someone else has an explanation. Someone already > suggested to me that I need a picture of a horse among the animal > pictures. Maybe the experiment would have worked as expected if I did > that. Guess I have to find myself a picture of a horse. > > Michael > > Michael Britt > Host of The Psych Files > www.thepsychfiles.com > >> I didn't read your description, but just clicked on the link. My >> attempt at clicking on condition 1 didn't work at first, so I chose > condition 2. >> After seeing all of the animals, I couldn't see the horse. Then, I >> went through condition 1 (no animals), and saw the horse and rider > clearly! >> How do you explain that? >> >> >> Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D. >> Associate Professor of Psychology & Counseling University of Central >> Arkansas Conway, AR 72035 >> 501-450-5418 >> >> >> --- > > > > --- > > --- > ---
