What do we call a mental predisposition that influences our interpretation of a stimulus?

Perceptual set  

Explanation:

Perceptual set: perceptual set is the phenomena that describe a tendency to notice the presented sensory data or objects and ignore others.  

The perceptual set work on two concepts:  

The perceptual set has the number of factors that influence perceptual set:

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