Hana grew up in Japan and Ben grew up in the USA. Both look at the same photograph of an aquarium for ten seconds. Ben describes the large fish swimming at the front. Hana describes the fish as well as the rocks, plants and water around them.
Use culture as a factor affecting perception to explain the difference between Hana's and Ben's descriptions.
66 exam-style questions on Oxford AQA IGCSE Psychology 1.2 Perception, covering 1.2.1 Sensation versus perception, 1.2.2 Monocular depth cues, 1.2.3 Binocular depth cues, 1.2.4 Gibson's direct theory of perception, 1.2.5 Motion parallax, 1.2.6 Explanations for visual illusions, 1.2.7 Examples of visual illusions, 1.2.8 Gregory's constructivist theory, 1.2.9 Factors affecting perception, and 1.2.10 Studies of factors affecting perception. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.