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- Title
Accentuation and response variability in the perception of personally relevant objects.
- Authors
Dukes, William F.; Bevan Jr., William; DUKES, W F; BEVAN, W Jr
- Abstract
The article presents information on accentuation and response variability in the perception of personally relevant objects. The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between accentuation and response variability The experiment is designed to answer the following questions. If one object is perceived as larger than another of the same actual size because it is valued, needed, or desired, will an individual's responses to the valued object also show the increased variability expected, according to Weber's law, in judgments of objects of larger actual size? Or does value also exert a compensating effect such that response variability is held the same or even decreased? Supplementary considerations involve examination of accentuation in other than the too often utilized visual modality and a more extensive analysis of response variability itself. Thirty children, aged 6-10 years, made 66 differential judgments of weights. Two matched classes of weights were used valued, small jars filled with candy, and neutral, similar jars containing sand and sawdust. Responses were tabulated in four categories according to the following combinations of Standard and Variable, both neutral, both positive, neutral Standard, positive Variable, positive Standard, neutral Variable. When both aspects of the situation about which the person is required to make perceptual judgments are valued, the response variability is less than when one or both aspects are neutral.
- Subjects
VARIABILITY (Psychometrics); PSYCHOMETRICS; DIFFERENTIAL psychology; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL sciences; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of Personality, 1952, Vol 20, Issue 4, p457
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1952.tb01120.x