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- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1956 American Psychological Association
- ISSN
- 0033-295x
- eISSN
- 1939-1471
- DOI
- 10.1037/h0042992
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
"Perception is conceived as a process intervening between stimuli and responses. As such it can be viewed as a concept whose properties may be delimited by converging operations. Converging operations are any set of experimental operations which eliminate alternative hypotheses and which can lead to a concept which is not uniquely identified with any of the original operations, but is defined by the results of all operations performed . . . . Illustrations from current experimental problems in perception indicate how some response characteristics may be isolated from perceptual properties, and vice versa."
Journal
Psychological Review – American Psychological Association
Published: May 1, 1956