The Effect of Content on Quantitative Indices of Autokinetic Movement and Their Value in Identifying Traits of Introversion-Extraversion
Abstract
Perception, along with learning, has held the center of interest in psychology for the last 50 years. Earlier investigators were usually interested in data which could form the basis for generalizations and laws. Consequently, individual differences and personality factors could only be looked upon as interfering effects. For the personality researcher of today, however, these factors may well prove to be one of the most fruitful areas of investigation. The reason for this lies in the twofold fast that both perception and learning are among the most fundamental behavioral processes and that the reactional biography of an individual affects these processes in varying degrees. Such has been generally admitted for a long time. Yet it is only recently that the study of individual differences in the processes themselves has begun to come into its own (39 ). The usual approach in such studies has been to seek relationships between personality factors derived from paper-and-pencil tests on the one hand, and measures of perception and learning on the other.
Subject Area
Personality psychology
Recommended Citation
Mullaney, Anthony J, "The Effect of Content on Quantitative Indices of Autokinetic Movement and Their Value in Identifying Traits of Introversion-Extraversion" (1959). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28673323.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28673323
