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PERCEPTUAL JUDGEMENT AS A FUNCTION OF CONTEXT
Author(s) -
IMMERGLUCK LUDWIG
Publication year - 1962
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.2044-8295.1962.tb00850.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perception , stimulus (psychology) , judgement , cognitive psychology , second order stimulus , brightness , social psychology , visual perception , optics , epistemology , neuroscience , physics , philosophy
Perceptual contrast has been traditionally demonstrated with stimulus attributes involving size, perspective, or brightness of given stimulus objects. The present investigation aims to examine the operation of perceptual contrast in such qualitative dimensions as geometric stability, symmetry, or general design quality of a stimulus. The results show that the stimulus figure, a square, was perceived as geometrically more perfect when presented in a disordered and unstable context as compared with an ordered and stable one.