Accession Number:

AD0258854

Title:

PERCEPTION (IN EXPERIMENTAL FOUNDATIONS OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY)

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ARIZONA STATE UNIV TEMPE

Personal Author(s):

• GOLDIAMOND,ISRAEL

Report Date:

1961-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

1.0

Abstract:

This report is to appear as a chapter in the forthcoming book, The Experimental Foundations of Clinical Psychology, edited by Arthur Bachrach, to be published by Basic Books. Perception is defined procedurally, rather than as a variable or state intervening between stimulus and response classes, and the implications of this definition are considered, with special reference to some clinical areas. Although this applied area is singled out, the procedural orientation may have implications for other areas, since it is concerned with more general issues. These issues are raised by application to perceptual and monitoring situations of the experimental analysis, maintenance, and controlled alteration of behavior. The effects upon perceptual formulations of current advances related to communications and conditioning research are considered, and are applied to training, research, and other analytical problems. Specific consideration is given to the Theory of Signal Detection, operant conditioning research in discrimination, and generalization, and other recognition and verbal bahavior word research. Author

Descriptors:

• *BEHAVIOR
• *PERCEPTION
• *PSYCHOLOGY
• CONDITIONED RESPONSE
• DETECTION
• EDUCATION
• FACTOR ANALYSIS
• INTELLIGIBILITY
• LANGUAGE
• MEASUREMENT
• PERSONALITY
• PSYCHOSES
• SCHEDULING
• SENSES(PHYSIOLOGY)
• SIGNALS
• SPEECH
• SPEECH REPRESENTATION
• STIMULATION(PHYSIOLOGY)
• THEORY
• VISION

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE