Perception through experience / M. D. Vernon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vernon, M. D. (Magdalen Dorothea), 1901-1991, author.

Series:

Psychology Library Editions : Perception ; Volume 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

I. Introduction

II. The origin and development of visual perception

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.

Notes:

First published in 1970 by Methuen & Co. Ltd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 11, 2017).

ISBN:

1-138-20361-0

1-315-47131-0

1-315-47133-7

9781315471334

OCLC:

988376702