A quantitative approach, to figural "goodness".
- 1 November 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 46 (5) , 361-364
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0055809
Abstract
Probability of alternate perceptual responses is suggested as an approximate quantitative index of "goodness" of figure, and a group technique is presented by which this score can be obtained for ambiguous stimuli. Using the technique to obtain group scores for relative duration of tri- and bidimensional phases of 4 Kopfermann cube fugures, the resulting responses are not inconsistent with the working hypothesis, namely that the probability of a given perceptual response to a stimulus is an inverse function of the amt. of information required to define that pattern.Keywords
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