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EMERGENCE OF SET ON THE BASIS OF IMAGINAL SITUATIONS
Author(s) -
NATADZE R.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1960.tb00746.x
Subject(s) - ball (mathematics) , psychology , perception , set (abstract data type) , object (grammar) , cognitive psychology , subject (documents) , social psychology , communication , artificial intelligence , computer science , mathematics , geometry , library science , programming language , neuroscience
The main results are reported of an experimental study in which the writer set out to ascertain the possibility of inducing a set ( Einstellung ) on the basis of some pertinent conceived (and not perceived) situation. In a series of experiments the subject is to imagine, repeatedly and in close succession, that he is lifting a heavy object with one hand, and a light object with the other; or, that he is grasping a large ball with one hand, and a small ball with the other. A fixated set resulting from this imaginal handling of objects differing in size should manifest itself in the subject's subsequent perception of objectively equal objects. And so it does: for example, objectively equal weights or equal balls are perceived as unequal. It is concluded that the problem of the feasibility of evolving a set on the basis of imagination has been solved.