One day, Professor Burns came into class and put his briefcase onto the desk in the front of the room. The desk promptly fell apart and the briefcase tumbled to the floor. Because of perceptual salience, what will students be most likely to think?

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Alberto Barrera

23 August, 03:44

One day, Professor Burns came into class and put his briefcase onto the desk in the front of the room. The desk promptly fell apart and the briefcase tumbled to the floor. Because of perceptual salience, what will students be most likely to think?

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Jovan Berger · Answer 1

Perceptual salience is also known as Saliency Bias. It refers to the tendency of an individual to use the available traits or circumstances to make a perception or a judgment about a situation or a person. Sailence means the observable or the noticeable things and bias is the way we perceive things.

In the context, when professor Burns kept the briefcase on the desk, the desk fell apart as soon as Burn kept the briefcase on it. And because of the perceptual salience, the students will tend to focus more on Professor Burns than the situation itself and think it was Professor Burns' fault.