Personal Values as Determinants of Perceptual Fixation

Patterns of mental functioning associated with prejudice in children.

“…The present study never reaches the stage of denning the personally relevant values or needs of the subjects, although * Current literature in perception theory is waxing heavy with studies aimed to clarify these relationships (5,7,8,29,40). Still others are waging the battle for a "non-separatist" view of cognitional and motivational processes (21).…”

Personal values, visual recognition, and recall.

“…: The curves in Fig. 2 show a U-shaped relationship between value rank and 12 Another study showing the effect of personal value on retention is that of McGinnies and Bowles (7). 18 The failure of frequency to be a significant source of variance is in part a function of the particular levels of familiarity used.…”

“…We can then conclude either (a) what we have been calling personal values are merely variations in frequency of word usage or (b) one of the ways in which differences in personal values can manifest themselves is in differences of word usage. 7 It all "Solomon and Howes recognize the possibility of such a formulation when they say that "emotional factors undoubtedly operate to an important extent in the building of word frequencies in a given life history" (13, p. 267).…”

Compulsiveness as a Determinant in Selected Cognitive‐Perceptual Performances1

“…Basic to the approach of this study is the assumption that perceptual behavior may reflect underlying motivational dynamics Perceptual defense (14) and subception (13) are illustrations of concepts denved from this assumption Our efforts may in some modest way tend to confinn or deny the use of m^de of perceiving as a means of understandmg personality characteristics…”

“…JL N RECENT YEARS a great deal of research has been focused on the relation between personality variables and perception The stud) reported here is the result of an attempt to extend this approach to the study of perceptual differences among classes of psychiatric patients A considerable number of studies has demonstrated the influence of needs, values, and past learning on perception (1,2,6,12,15,18) Expenments in this area have been conducted primarily with "normal" subjects Expenments with abnormal subjects may enable us (1) to test the generality of the empirical relationships reported and (2) to gauge the effects of mtense degrees of motivational mvohement on perceptual functions Basic to the approach of this study is the assumption that perceptual behavior may reflect underlying motivational dynamics Perceptual defense (14) and subception (13) are illustrations of concepts denved from this assumption Our efforts may in some modest way tend to confinn or deny the use of m^de of perceiving as a means of understandmg personality characteristics…”