Productive Perception
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19331048 |
|---|---|
| Authors | V P Zinchenko (a All-Union Society of Psychologists, USSR, Tbilisi), В П Зинченко (Society of Toxicology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 66-88 |
| Publication date | 1974-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Soviet Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-5751 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2753/rpo1061-0405130266 |
| OpenAlex | W4254584818 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
Many generations of psychologists have been concerned with the problem of how we see things as they are in reality. The science of vision has accumulated extensive material on this subject; and many more or less correct hypotheses have been proposed, formulated in the various conceptual terms of philosophy, art, psychology, physiology, biophysics, mathematics, and technology. Investigation into the working of the visual system has not developed equally in these fields. One instructive fact will not go unnoticed in the future history of the science of vision: in psychology, interest in image phenomena has fallen sharply, first because of behaviorism, then because of too broad an interpretation of the classic teachings on conditioned reflexes, and later because of cybernetic ideas. It has been maintained probably in a single area, psychiatry, in which investigative and medical material has not permitted image and hallucinatory phenomena to be ignored. In the early 1960s representatives of various psychological and physiological schools and disciplines returned anew to the long-for gotten topic of image phenomena. As Holt has aptly remarked (15), images are returning from exile. As generally happens in science, the rekindling of interest in a traditional topic occurred through the internal logic of studying the problems of perception in the light of the relatively new fields in science and technology. If we trace the development of only some of them — design theory, engineering psychology, and the theory of creative activity (as a separate subdivision of art, science, and the psychology of creativity) — it becomes clear that the return to image phenomena is due to the inability of behaviorism and associated physiological conditioning theories to explain complex forms of behavior and mental activity
Behaviorism · Cognitive science · Creativity · Cybernetics · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Perception · Subject (documents) · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 1986 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |