Judgmental model of the Ebbinghaus illusion.
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Two experiments studied the Ebbinghaus illusion as a function of four stimulus variables: the size of the context circles, the number of context circles, the distance between the context circles and the center circle, and the size of the center circle. The results provided a quantitative test of a judgmental model that considers the Ebbinghaus illusion to be comparative in nature. The context circles, then, serve as standards or yardsticks, and the center circle is judged partly relative to them. The model provided a reasonably good description of the magnitude of the illusion as a function of the several stimulus variables.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of experimental psychology
دوره 89 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1971