Graphic analysis of duck and rabbit diagram

Psychologically, Duck and Rabbit is a typical example of gestalt psychology. Explain that the whole determines the nature of the part, and the part is meaningful only by relying on the whole. In philosophy, philosophers think about the relationship between feeling and cognition. For example, Wittgenstein used this figure in philosophical research to illustrate that if the same object can be regarded as two different things, then it means that perception is not a pure feeling. Several aspects must be paid attention to in narrative perception. The report on perception carries concepts and is a combination of experience and thought.

Perception is not a pure feeling. Feelings are passively accepted by us, and there is almost no difference. In the above experiment, children feel the same when faced with the same "pictures of ducks and rabbits". However, when they comprehensively recognized the sensory materials they received, the situation changed: some children looked like ducks, while others looked like rabbits. In other words, the process of observing something is also the process of giving it meaning. With different meanings, things will show us different faces. The famous philosopher Husserl once gave a similar example. He said that when we were walking in the wax museum, we met a strange lady on the steps, a wax figure, which puzzled us instantly. When we realize that this is an illusion, our perception of the lady will be transformed into our perception of the wax figure of the lady. Here, the feeling material has not changed, but the way we give meaning has changed.

When observing a thing, we always regard it as what we expect to see. The expectations here are given to us by past experience. Experience is not an individual's internal private psychological state or process, but is created by human culture and education. They are not any psychological or physical causal relationship, but the conceptual relationship constructed by human life forms. For example, the same graphics, people with different cultural and educational backgrounds will see different things. For a person who has never seen a duck, he will not regard the "duck rabbit map" as a duck head map. Moreover, lifestyle has basically defined the scope and way of one's perception. A person does not have the ability to perceive "aspects", not only because he lacks imagination, but also because he does not know how to appreciate the profound and diverse cultures in life. For example, telling a joke or humor, we in China may burst into laughter after hearing it, while foreigners may be puzzled and at a loss after hearing it. Here, foreigners may not understand the content of this joke, but they can't perceive this "joke" because they don't understand our culture.

Malcolm Graville, a popular science writer, mentioned that a group of China students with the same age and education background and a group of non-China students were arranged to browse pictures and were asked what they saw after watching them. China students basically describe the picture as a whole, rather than China students pointing out some specific parts of the picture. From this, it seems that we can draw the conclusion that China students tend to look at things in the overall situation, while non-China students pay more attention to the specific things in the pictures they are interested in.