PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION IN INDUSTRIAL INSPECTORS
- 1 July 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ergonomics
- Vol. 5 (3) , 429-434
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00140136208930613
Abstract
Descriptions of the inspection of painted surfaces, of domestic cleaners for noise, and the surface of castings, are used to illustrate the suggestion that prolonged perceptual interaction with a restricted range of objects produces now figure-ground experiences in the inspector. The paper discusses the observation that the inspector learns to recognize a wide variety of secondary cues as relevant to his task, and is thus enabled continually to adjust his perceptual ‘ set ’ to optimise his performance. This perceptual development is compared with that experienced by a subject during prolonged viewing of a distorted room.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Perceptual development in a distorted room: A phenomenological study.Psychological Monographs: General and Applied, 1956
- Task Perception and Inter-Personal Relations in Industrial TrainingHuman Relations, 1947