The Mobility of The Coordinates of a Subjective Semantic Space As a Manifestation of Categorical Set
А.Г. Шмелев · Soviet Psychology · 1980
The perception and objective semantic interpretation of an object depend on categorical set. Categorical set is the readiness of the subject to interact with objects of a specified category. A multitude of experimental evidence confirms the existence of categorical set. This evidence can be divided into three groups: (a) data indicating that perception depends on experimental instructions; (b) data indicating that perception depends on the category to which the preceding stimulation belongs; and, finally, (c) data indicating that perception depends on individual differences in motivation, which are a priori with regard to the experiment. The reasons for the appearance of sets vary; but in the end they all lead to one and the same result: the evocation of diverse expectations (hypotheses) in different subjects in the same situation, or in the same subject at different moments in time (Bruner, 1977).