The American Journal of Psychology · 1963 · 46 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesBehavioral SciencesPsychologyCognitive PsychologyExperimental DesignExperimental PsychologyPerceptual OrganizationPsychophysicsSize PerceptionContextContextual Size EffectsExperimental ManipulationExperimental TestingManipulationVisual Context Effects
context of the stimuli was varied. Actually, two properties of the context -size and figure-ground relation-were selected for experimental manipulation. The former is identified with a physical property of the stimulusfield. It is analogous to the weight of anchors outside the series in the weight-lifting experiment and the lightness of the background in the color-conversion experiment.2 The latter refers to changes in the organization of the perceptual field with the stimulus held constant. It is concerned with the influence of contextual stimuli as a function of their