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The development of perception in adults
Weiner, Melvin L.
Weiner, Melvin L.
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How do we come to know the world? This is a question concerning psychological growth. To arrive at some of the answers to this basic problem of cognition, one should follow the human organism from birth onward, and trace the development of activities and processes that come to make an organism human in every sense of the word. One of the leading investigators today has basically contributed to such a developmental epistemology. The exciting explorations of the development of the sensory-motor, perceptual, and conceptual processes in infants and children by Piaget have led, after 25 years of investigation, to the three volume work, Introduction a l’epistemologie genetigue (15). This study is concerned with an analysis of the processes of learning, not statically, but from the point of view of growth and development.
In the present investigation we have designed an “experimental world” where the individual’s environment is new and strange to him, and where the application of old habitual ways of acting and perceiving will be inadequate. In order for the individual to adapt his perceptions so that they are coordinated with the new environment that we have devised, he will have to develop new ways of perceptual functioning and new percepts. He will have to learn from his contact with his new environment and learn to integrate these new experiences into his perceptual functioning. The plan, therefore, is to (1) present a strange and unfamiliar world to the S, (2) provide the S with varied and controlled experiences, i.e., opportunity to have perceptual and motor contact and interaction with the "experimental world,'' and (3) carefully obtain a detailed phenomenological record from the Sin his attempts to adjust to this new world through the development and emergence of new percepts.
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Ph. D. University of Kansas, Psychology 1954
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1954-04-30
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