Culture and Perception (Intro Psych Tutorial #58)

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In this video I consider the role of culture on perception. The fact that we must learn how to perceive the world creates the possibility that our culture can shape our perception. I provide one example of this, known as the carpentered-world hypothesis, which can used to explain susceptibility to the Müller-Lyer illusion. The carpentered-world hypothesis suggests that cultural experience with parallel lines and right angles increases susceptibility to the illusion by shaping the assumptions that a person makes when viewing the lines.
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That’s quite incredible🙈
But what does this mean about how we as people perceive reality? Does this mean my mind is lying to me? I have no real sense of reality?

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Great question. I would say it reveals one of the key themes of psychology, which is that we can't perceive reality as it is. We have the biological limitations of our human senses (which can't detect many things about objective reality), in addition to our inherent cognitive biases, and the cultural influences that shape how we interpret our perceptions of reality. Our physical limitations are more obvious and we can build tools that help us perceive things our senses can't (like microorganisms, magnetic fields, infrared light, etc) but our cognitive biases and social influences are less immediately obvious to us.