Perception and the Representative Design of Psychological Experiments

Egon Brunswik

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9780520350519
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Experimental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This title was originally published in 1956.
This title was originally published in 1956.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS 1
• INTRODUCTION. DIFFERENTIAL AND FUNCTIONAL PROBLEMS IN PSYCHOLOGY
• I. THE VARIABLES ENTERING OBJECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
• II. FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF DESIGN IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
• III. THE CLASSICAL PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO ERROR STATISTICS
• IV. PROXIMAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL PSYCHOPHYSICS OF “GESTALT" PROBLEMS: INTRAORGANISMIC FIELD DYNAMICS
• V. DISTAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL PSYCHOPHYSICS OF THE “THING-CONSTANCIES”: STABILIZATION OF RELATIONS WITH THE REMOTE ENVIRONMENT
• VI. FORCED REPRESENTATIVENESS OF STIMULI IN EXPERIMENTS ON SOCIAL PERCEPTION. ECOLOGICAL vs. POPULATIONAL GENERALITY
• VII. CONVERGENCE OF EXPERIMENT AND STATISTICS IN THE METHODOLOGY OF A PROBABILISTIC FUNCTIONALISM
• VIII. ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY OF POTENTIAL CUES AND THEIR UTILIZATION IN PERCEPTION
• IX. ECOLOGICAL OVERGENERALIZATION OF EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY
• X. DEVELOPMENT TOWARD GREATER REPRESENTATIVENESS IN EXPERIMENTS ON LEARNING
• XI. VISUAL, AUDITORY, AND TACTILE-KINESTHETIC CONSTANCIES: CANVASSING BY SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENT AS ECOLOGICAL SPOT SAMPLING
• XII. THE EXTENDED CONSTANCY PROBLEM
• XIII. DEVELOPMENTAL ASPECTS OF THE CONSTANCY PROBLEM
• XIV. PERCEPTION AND THINKING
• XV. THE STUDY OF PHYSIOGNOMIC PERCEPTION BY SYSTEMATIC-REPRESENTATIVE HYBRID DESIGNS
• XVI. TEXTURAL ECOLOGY AS A PROPAEDEUTIC TO FUNCTIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
• XVII. ACQUISITION AND EXTINCTION OF PERCEPTUAL CUES
• XVIII. PROBLEMS OF STIMULUS REPRESENTATIVENESS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY26
• CONCLUSION: FUNCTIONAL THEORY AND A DEFINITION OF PERCEPTION
• BIBLIOGRAPHY