Perception and the Representative Design of Psychological Experiments 1st edition by Egon Brunswik 9780520350519 0520350510

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

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