2,855
edits
Framing: Difference between revisions
m
no edit summary
m (→References) |
mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
'''...actually it's a rabbit, looking right.''' If you haven't seen this picture before, the initial ''duck'' comment above will '''[[Priming|prime]]''' you to think it is a duck, where in fact it could arguably be either a '''duck''' or a '''rabbit''' (See '''Figure.1'''). This is the famous [[Duck-rabbit illusion printable|duck-rabbit illusion]], you can try this yourself on others using this unprimed [https://burnzero.com/Duck-rabbit_illusion_printable.pdf printable version]. | '''...actually it's a rabbit, looking right.''' If you haven't seen this picture before, the initial ''duck'' comment above will '''[[Priming|prime]]''' you to think it is a duck, where in fact it could arguably be either a '''duck''' or a '''rabbit''' (See '''Figure.1'''). This is the famous [[Duck-rabbit illusion printable|duck-rabbit illusion]], you can try this yourself on others using this unprimed [https://burnzero.com/Duck-rabbit_illusion_printable.pdf printable version]. | ||
What is happening here is that the brain determined to accept the suggested duck option as a [[Heuristics|heuristic]] rather than [[Energy frugal brain|waste the energy]] to critically assess what the author primarily suggested. This is called framing, it occurs when information is hazy and requires brain energy to discern so | What is happening here is that the brain determined to accept the suggested duck option as a [[Heuristics|heuristic]] rather than [[Energy frugal brain|waste the energy]] to critically assess what the author primarily suggested. This is called framing, it occurs when information is hazy and requires brain energy to discern so people tend to default to accept the easily suggested third party, [[Authority Bias|authoritative]] opinion. These types of images can be considered [[Optical Illusions|optical illusions]] however, in fact the ''Gestalt'' switching is a type of psychological illusion. | ||
This heuristic gives an author the power to control what is ambiguous as fact. Without the priming you might have known that it was both a duck and a rabbit but it was presented by an author (an authority) as only the former. It is the [[perceived authority]] of the presenter which enables the efficacy of framing much like the [[placebo]] effect. i.e. doctors, in a white coat giving you a medicine has been shown to make the effect of a medicine more potent. | This heuristic gives an author the power to control what is ambiguous as fact. Without the priming you might have known that it was both a duck and a rabbit but it was presented by an author (an authority) as only the former. It is the [[perceived authority]] of the presenter which enables the efficacy of framing much like the [[placebo]] effect. i.e. doctors, in a white coat giving you a medicine has been shown to make the effect of a medicine more potent. | ||