Irvin Rock

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Irvin Rock


Born
New York, The United States
Died
July 18, 1995

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Irvin Rock (1922–1995) was an American experimential psychologist who studied visual perception at the University of California at Berkeley.

His The Logic of Perception led to him being regarded as an excellent perception psychologist. Rock is notable in the field of psychology for his 1957 experiment where he tilted a square to make it look like a diamond and then tilted his test subjects and asked them what shape they saw. The experiment tested Rock's hypothesis that perceptual phenomena could be explained by higher-level mental processes instead of merely by automatic processes. When his test subjects continued to perceive the shape as a diamond after being tilted to view the shape as a square, Rock concluded that perception is an intell
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Average rating: 3.98 · 54 ratings · 3 reviews · 18 distinct works
Perception

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The Legacy of Solomon Asch

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The Logic of Perception

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The Perceptual World: Readi...

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An Introduction to Perception

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Orientation and form

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Indirect Perception (Cognit...

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The nature of perceptual ad...

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LA PERCEPTION

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LA PERCEPCION

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