Perception Through Experience

M.D. Vernon

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781138203617
• eBook ISBN: 9781315471310
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychologie
• Subtopic: Kognitive Psychologie & Kognition

The term 'visual perception' covers a very wide range of psychological functions. This title, originally published in 1970, which provides a broad survey of this vast field of knowledge, would have proved a valuable general account for students taking degree courses in psychology at the time. Professor Vernon examines a large number of experiments carried out over the previous twenty years, their findings, the conclusions drawn from them, and – equally important – the still unanswered questions which some of them raised.

As the title suggests, Professor Vernon considers that – while much knowledge of the simpler perceptual processes had been gained in laboratory experiments – perhaps too little investigation had been undertaken into the more complex processes which normally determine understanding of and response to environment: the processes of identification and classification that depend to a considerable extent on learning, memory, attention, reasoning and language. An extensive bibliography is provided.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• I Introduction
• II The Origin and Development of Visual Perception in Infancy
• III The Perception of Form
• IV The Perception of Complex Material
• V The Arousal and direction of Attention
• VI The Restriction and Failure of Attention
• VII The Spatial Framework and Perception of Distance
• VIII The Constancies
• IX The Perception of Movement
• X The Perception of Persons
• XI The Effect of Motivation on Perception
• XII The Effect on Perception of Personality Characteristics
• XIII Conclusions
• References
• Index of Authors
• Index of Subjects