• Psychology, Medicine
• Published in
  Journal of abnormal…
  1947
• DOI:10.1037/h0058484

Value and need as organizing factors in perception.

@article{Bruner1947ValueAN,
  title={Value and need as organizing factors in perception.},
  author={Jerome S. Bruner and C C Goodman},
  journal={Journal of abnormal psychology},
  year={1947},
  volume={42 1},
  pages={
          33-44
        }
}

• Jerome S. Bruner, C C Goodman

THROUGHOUT the history of modern psychology, until very recent times, perception has been treated as though the perceiver were a passive recording instrument of rather complex design. One might, in most experiments, describe him in much the same graphical terms as one uses to describe die latest piece of recording apparatus obtainable from Stoelting or the American Optical Company. Such psychology, practiced as it were in vitro, has fallen short of clarifying the nature of perception in… CONTINUE READING

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