Laboratory Experience in Psychology
A First Term's Work
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1965
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Author: B. Babington Smith
- Editor: G. P. Meredith
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 3 9 2 0 - 3
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Request a sales quoteLaboratory Experience in Psychology: A First Terms Work focuses on experimental psychology, which demonstrates a pragmatic, empirical approach that is endlessly adaptable to varying circumstances in determining human experience and through which the information governing human behavior is deciphered. The topics discussed in this book include the demonstrations and eyewitness accounts: fidelity of report; serial reproduction and the assessment of changes of meaning; control or exclusion of meaning; getting beneath recognition; and “weight,” a study of physical and perceptual dimensions. The “extent” and “density,” a paradigm of perceptual learning; “length” and the development of a frame of reference; and discussion and findings are also deliberated in this text. This publication is valuable to students and researchers conducting work in the psychological field.
Acknowledgments
Editor's Foreword
Introduction
Origin and Aims
Beginner's Needs
The Notion of an Experiment
A Topic for Study
The Evidence of our Senses
Practices and Conventions Adopted
1. Demonstrations and Eyewitness Accounts: Fidelity of Report
The Setting and Introductory Talk
Demonstrations
Summary of Evidence from One Class
Review of Reports from Classes
Discussion of Detailed Results
What Has Been Achieved
What should Be Brought under Control
2. Serial Reproduction, and the Assessment of Changes of Meaning
Manual
Summary of Quantitative Results
Weaknesses in the Quantitative Method
What is an Idea
Variations in Procedure
Effects of Individual Differences
The Importance of Meaning and the Effect of Lapse of Time
3. The Control or Exclusion of Meaning
1. The First Route
"Obliviscence" and the Exclusion of Coherent Meaning
"Association" and Pointers to Meaning for Individuals
"Nonsense Syllables" and the Growth of Meaning
"Inkblots" and the Evocation of Meaning in the Non-representational
2. A Second Route
"Silhouettes" and the Emergence of Meaning
The Nature of the Perceptual Response
The Nature of Recognition and the Need to Get Beneath Recognition to Reach the Evidence of the Senses
"Controlled Association" and the Establishment of a Set
4. Getting Beneath Recognition
"Of Sensations Commonly Ascribed to Touch"
Descriptions of Recognized and Unrecognized Objects
The Effects of not Being Allowed to Use Names
Qualities Perceived in Handling
Active Processes Necessary
Link with Anatomy
5. "Weight": A Study of Physical and Perceptual Dimensions
1. How is Weight Appreciated
Comparison between Human Judgments and Weighing Machines
Discrepancies
Roles of Size and Density
2. Focus on Weight, Size and Density
How is Size Involved
How is Density Perceived
Physical Weight Not Directly Experienced
6. "Extent" and "Density", and a Paradigm of Perceptual Learning
Comparison between Scattered Areas and Areas within One Boundary
Systematic Error and Available Information
Qualitative Change not Necessarily Reflected in Quantitative Measures
Behavior in the Face of the Unfamiliar
A Paradigm of Perceptual Learning
7. "Length": And the Development of a Frame of Reference
1. A Final Attempt at Complete Control
Subject's Response Limited to Comparisons between Two Lengths
Variety of Conditions
Attempt to Balance Effects and to Prevent Learning
Development of Patterns in Responses
2. Effects of Conditions on Extent and Size
Effects Relative and Absolute
The Need for Further Exploration
8. Discussion and Findings
Recapitulation
Has an Experiment Been Achieved
What is the Evidence of the Senses
Observing and Recording
The Principle of the Three Records
Statistical Method
The Value of Descriptive Statistics
Objections to Standard Methods of Statistical Inference
Human Response to Control in a Laboratory
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1965
- Imprint: Pergamon
- No. of pages: 264
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9781483139203
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