ABSTRACT
What we perceive in any situation depends to a large extent on what we are attending to at the time. And what we attend to depends on a number of both subjective and objective factors. Some of the subjective factors are due to innate personality and temperamental differences. This emerged in Bartlett’s experiments: 1 the cautious, hesitating person reacted quite differently in the same objective situation from the confident, positive person ; and the person in a doubting mood perceived differently from the same person in a confident mood.
