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A Philosophical Analysis of the Concepts of Learning, Perception, and Conception As These Are Treated in Current Psychological Theory A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPTS OF LEARNING, PERCEPTION, AND CONCEPTION AS THESE ARE TREATED IN CURRENT PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University NAGUIB ISKANDER IBRAHIM, B. S., M. A. The Ohio State University 1955 ApprovecUhy: Adviser Department of Education e ACKNCMLEDGMENT This study was made possible only beca-use of the invaluable help, encouragement and enlightenment I received continuously from my adviser and teacher Prof essor H. Gordon Hullfish, both in terms of his outstanding human attitude and his profound deep and critical intellectual insights. For Dr. Hullfish I shall always carry a deep sense of heartfelt indebtedness and gratitude. My sincere thanks also go t o Professor J. Cuber, whose readiness with help and advice i n relationship to sociological problems has contributed to ray final grasp of the present work. To Professor J. Kinzer I feel especially thankful. His encourage­ ment and his stimulating discussions in psychology, whether in class or in private interviews always advanced my insight, especially in connection with t h e present study, I am also thankful to Professor Hugh Laugblin for his friendliness and his sincerity and for the stimulation of his ideas. % heartfelt thanks and gratitude go also to all faculty members of The Ohio State University, who have directly or indirectly helped me carry this work to its completion. To the gracious librarians, especially Miss Edmondson of the College of Education Library1-, I am indebted for their help that made it easy to go on with my academic work. i i To my many American friends, especially the Lee Stryker family, Scott Blankenship and Gordon Pyle, whose sympathy, friendliness and understanding made my social experiences in this country one that I will always cherish as a happy period of my life. My thanks and appreciation go to Miss ELaine Ginett for her sincere and indefatigable efforts in typing this thesis. No written statement can fully express my gratefulness to my dear wife Helen for her help, sacrifice and continuous moral support and encouragement. To the Graduate Institute of Education, ’Ain Shams Univer­ sity’ and to the Egyptian Government go my heartfelt thanks and indebtedness for granting me the leave to study at The Ohio State University. And last but not least to my father whose continuous kind­ ness and wise guidance enabled me to develop socially, morally and intellectually, this thesis is dedicated. TABIE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY. 1 II FIELD THEORIES.............................. 29 Introduction............................ 29 The Molar41olecular Issue. .......... 30 The Proximal Distal Issue. ............ 33 Gestalt Theory.............. 37 Past Experience. .................. 39 The Dynamic of Perception.......... 1*1 Isomorphism. ........................... 1*2 The Law of Pragnanz. .......... 1*3 Hebbfs Theory: Primitive Unity and Form Discrimination.. ........ 5l Experimental Evidence.......... 93 Brunswik's System. .................... 97 Distal Representation...................... $8 Snygg and Comb’s Phenomenal Theory: Awareness of the Phenomenal Field........ 61* Prediction of Behavior.................... 69 The Phenomenal Self........................66 Criticisms . ........................... 66 VII ASSOCIATION THEORIES ‘BEHAVIORISM’..............70 Introduction.............................70 Modem Behavioristic Theories............... 72 Clark L. Hull.............................71* The Postalates . ............... 79 The Chain of Events. .................... 79 Gradient of Reinforcement and Goal Gradient ............ ....... 80 Habit-Family--Hierarchy.................. 82 Cognitive Concepts................ 83 General Criticisms ...................... 88 B. F. Skinner - Introduction............... 90 Respondent and Operant Behavior........... 90 Conditioning ........................... 91 Needs and Drives......................... 99 Emotions................................. 97 Punishment. ........................... 99 iv TABIE CF CCN TENTS (Continued) CHAPTER PAGE E. R. Guthrie - Introduction.......... 102 The Law of Association............. 102 Reinforcement. .............. 103 The Effect of Practice............ 10U Forgetting and Associative Inhibition . • 103> Motives. ................ 106 Cognition........................... 107 General Evaluation of the System..... 109 17 REINFCRCSMMT VERSUS COGNITION. .......... 112 The Retroactive Action of the Law of Effect...................... 119 The Nature of Satisfiers and Reinfor cer ...................... 12 3 Performance Versus Habit Formation .... 132 Latent Learning.................... 13H The Continuity-Discontinuity Issue in Learning................ llj.3 General Comments ........... H|7 7 SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY AS TRANSACTION...........1U9 Self-Action . ....................... l£l Animism........................... 1^2 Inter-actionism.................... 1$$ The Trams-actional Approach.......... 165 Interaction versus Transaction....... 176 The Knower and Reality-or the Known. 180 VI PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY CONSIDERED FROM A TRANSACTIONAL STANDPOINT................... 188 Importance of the Scientific Model for Psychology................. 193 Conceptual Framework of Psychological Systems ..................198 First Field Theories-Mainly Gestalt. 200 Second, Behaviorism................. 20Li The Two Systems Contrasted ........ 207 A Transactional Approach to Psychology . 209 Human Behavior as Transactional......... 21k Chair Demonstration............. 216 Conclus ions........................ 217 v TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued) CHAPTER PAGE Star Point Demonstration. ........ 220 Conclusions. .... ..... 220 Size-Brightness Demonstration ......... 221 Cone lu sions.......................... 222 The Thatness-Thereness Demonstration. 223 Conclusions........................... 221; Anisekonic Glasses Demonstration......... 221; Conclusions........................ 225 The Vertical Lines of Light Demonstration....................... 226 Conclusions.......................... 227 The Distorted Room Demonstration......... 228 Conclusions............................ 229 The Demonstration of The Rotating Trapezordal Window (The Surety Demonstration)............................ 230 VII CRITICAL ASPECTS OF AMES* TRANSACTIONAL EXPERIMENTATION................................235 Assumptions and the Assumptive World . 2l;U Language, Thinking and Perception. .... 252 Concept and Concept Formation.......... 265 Conclusions. .........................278 BIBLIOGRAPHY................................. 283 vi A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPTS OF LEARNING, PERCEPTION, AND CONCEPTION AS THESE ARE TREATED IN CURRENT PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY INTRODUCTION The Setting of the Problem Psychologists have been concerned of late with the problem of integrating the vast wealth of data arrived at in different areas of this rapidly growing science. Integration has been sought in more than one way. Personality, learning, motivation, perception and learning, learning and motivation, motivation and perception, personality and perception and/or learning and conditioning and so on, almost without limit, are examples which illustrate this effort. Some theorists, indeed, have been struggling with the idea of formulating a general psychological theory. lihy is this concern now, one may ask? The answer is not hard to seek. David Krech answers the question partially by asserting that "Other sciences have found that scientific inquiry frequently becomes more fruitful in almost direct proportion to the process of unification of principles.This statement implies dis­ satisfaction with the host of unrelated, if not antagonistic, psychological principles now current in psychological studies. And this state of affairs does, in fact, hinder our understanding of ^ David Krech, "Notes Toward a Psychological Theory," Journal of Personality, Vol. 18 (19U9-19$0), p. 68. vii the object psychology sets itself to study— namely, man. Kretch goes on to suggest that in physics, one of the most advanced of the sciences, 11 'Fields1 of physics disappear and 'physics' O begins to appear."*1 The scientific method is a systematized way of relating and interrelating different phenomena of nature and formulating them in all-encompassing laws. If we have to draw upon a different and independent "law" to explain each separate observation, we are hardly better off than without such laws. This state of affairs is critical in the case of psychology, where that unity we call the human organism is the object of study. But the problem, by its very nature, is most complicated. Man, when he sets himself to study himself, is apt to dwell upon the host of names he assigns to the different and varied experiences he has. And, for many thinkers, when a name exists there is a tendency to believe that a distinct entity must lie behind it; and, conversely, that where no name exists there is nothingness. Thus, Plato, with all his genius, could not escape this pitfall and to him the psychological processes of man corresponded to his ultimate values: truth, beauty, and goodness. He even went so far as to assign different bodily centers for (1) cognition, the head; (2) affection, the heart; and (3) conation, the abdomen, p " David Krech, Ibid., p. 68. viii It is significant, and instructive, to note that regardless of what we claim to the contrary, we have and still are following his
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