Perception through experience / M.D. Vernon.

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Originally published in 1970 by Methuen & Co. Ltd.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

The term v̀isual 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.

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