Year: 1952
Type: article
Abstract: No contemporary psychologist would deny that the problems of learning and perception are intimately related. But how they are related and the degree to which they are interdependent has never been considered systematically. Hilgard (6, p. 181) has pointed to what is in all probability the major stumbling block. Leading theorists have been too long preoccupied with either one or the other of the two fields of investigation, and it can be fairly said that they have neglected the relationship between them. Kohler (9, p. 192), for example, would have us believe that if past experience does exert an influence upon perceptual organization, “it must be restricted to particular situations”. Furthermore, those who believe otherwise “will have to support their theory by experiments of their own”. Certainly the evidence gathered in support of the Gestalt view (8), (10), (18) is voluminous and persuasive.[...]
DOI: 10.1037/h0061361
Authors: Mortimer Mishkin, Donald G. Forgays
Institution: McGill University
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1987875906