An Experimental Synthesis of the Associations and Gestalt Accounts of the Perception of Size: Part I
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- 1 May 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 10 (2) , 65-76
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17470215808416258
Abstract
The Associationists state that our everyday impressions of size are a product of past experience. The Gestalt psychologists state that they are immediately or directly given in present experience. The experiment described here suggests that both past and present experience are simultaneously involved, and that a synthesis of the two accounts is required.Keywords
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