Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1973

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

A "same-different" reaction time paradigm was used to investigate the influence of context on the perception of multiple object scenes consisting of "real-world" objects. The relationships among these objects were manipulated to compose four different contextual arrangements. This enabled an investigation of three aspects of context: familiarity, physical plausibility, and belongingness. Differences in reaction time between the four levels of context were significant for both same and different responses. Furthermore, a correlational analysis indicated individual differences in the use of contextual effects. Those subjects who were most influenced by whether or not the objects belonged together, were least influenced by the disruption of the rules of physical plausibility, and vice versa. Correlational analyses concerned with the relationship between individual differences in context effects and emphasis on structural versus analytic processing (Hock, 1973) were insignificant, though in the predicted direction.

Extent

51 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.

Identifier

FADT13558

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