2. Personality Factors in Perception

2. Personality Factors in Perception The role of personality factors is no less significant in the process of perception. From the theoretical positions of L. S. Vygotsky, A. R. Luria, and A. V. Zaporozhets it follows that the development of perception is determined by new tasks that arise during ontogenesis. Perception advances as perceptual actions develop that manifest the subject's activity (B. C. Anan'yev, 1960; Yu. B. Gippenreiter, 1958; J. Piaget, 1961; L. A. Venger, 1969; A. V. Zaporozhets, 1960; V. P. Zinchenko, 1967). The cited works show how perceptual actions develop and examine their role in constructing an image. They enumerate the developmental stages of perceptual actions and their orienting and regulating functions. The skill and operations that constitute perceptual actions, the child's perceptual development, and the methods for studying the level of perceptual development have all been researched by L. A. Venger (1969).* All of these works characteristically approach perception as an activity that includes a basic feature of the human mind, namely, its selectivity (A. N. Leont'yev).