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Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice, Volume 1, Part 2 Edward Bradford Titchener No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 201 - Let us then assume as the basis of all our subsequent reasoning this law: When two elementary brain-processes have been active together or in immediate succession, one of them, on reoccuring, tends to propagate its excitement into the other.
Page 199 - Extent of field of view — Call up the image of some panoramic view (the walls of your room might suffice), can you force yourself to see mentally a wider range of it than could be taken in by any single glance of the eyes ? Can you mentally see more than three faces of a die, or more than one hemisphere of a globe at the same instant of time ? 5.
Page 200 - Can you, in general, call up organic sensations: hunger, thirst, fatigue, feverishness, drowsiness, the stuffiness of a bad cold ? 4. Arrange the following twenty experiences in groups, according to the clearness, vividness, and distinctness with which you can remember or imagine them. (a) A gloomy, clouded sky; a sheet of yellow paper; a black circle on a white ground.
Page 49 - Every motion of the air, then, which corresponds to a composite mass of musical tones, is, according to Ohm's law, capable of being analysed into a sum of simple pendular vibrations, and to each such single simple vibration corresponds a simple tone, sensible to the ear, and having a pitch determined by the periodic time of the corresponding motion of the air.
Page 144 - ... so that the figure is, as it were, inverted ; but it is not an exact inversion, for the near parts of the converse figure appear smaller, and the remote parts larger than the same parts before the inversion. Hence the drawings which, properly placed, occasion a cube to be perceived, when changed in the manner described, represent the frustum of a square pyramid with its base remote from the eye ; the cause of this is easy to understand. This conversion of relief may be shown by all the pairs...
Page 200 - ... the recollection of scenery with much precision of detail, and do you find pleasure in dwelling on it? Can you easily form mental pictures from the descriptions of scenery that are so frequently met with in novels and books of travel? 9. Comparison with reality.
Page 199 - The beat of rain against the window panes, the crack of a whip, a church bell, the hum of bees, the whistle of a railway, the clinking of tea-spoons and saucers, the slam of a door. C.
Page 206 - ... is on the engine. The pilot guard should always be distinguished by a special dress. The train-staff system, which perhaps requires a detailed description, is as follows : — The railway is divided into districts, A to B, B to c, c to D, and so on, and a staff like a policeman's truncheon is set apart as belonging to each district. To avoid confusion, the staffs are usually dissimilarly shaped, or made of dissimilar materials, and the staff of one district must on no account be taken off that...