Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1: Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
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Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1: Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
Psychology, Experimental
Other interesting facts come out in the notes. One subject finds the
ideated plane farther away than the objective plane; another conceives
the two as coinciding. The movement of the eyes is by this time
distinctly perceived by the subject. The reports run as follows:
'Eye-movements seem to follow the changes in ideation;' 'I find my
eyes already directed, when an image is ideated, to the corresponding
side, and am sometimes conscious of the movement, but the movement is
not intended or willed;' 'in ideating any particular color I find my
attention almost always directed to the side on which the
corresponding object was seen.' This last observation seems to be true
for the experience of every subject, and, generally speaking, the
images occupy the same relative positions as the objects: the image of
the right object is seen to the right, that of the left object to the
left, and the space between the two remains tolerably constant,
especially for the full-faced figures.
This fact suggested a means of eliminating the disturbing influence of
color, and its contrasts and surprises, by the substitution of gray
figures identical in form and size and distinguished only by their
spatial position. The result appears in the table which follows
(VIII.).
_Series No. VIII._--The object of this experiment was the same as that
of No. VII. Granite-gray figures, however, were substituted, for the
reasons already assigned, in place of the red and green figures. And
here the effect of additional time in the exposure is distinctly
marked, the general averages showing 32.12 seconds for the image of
the object which was exposed 10 seconds, as against 25.42 seconds for
the other.
TABLE VIII.
1 2 3 4 5 Indiv. Aver.
5 10 5 10 5 10 5 10 5 10 5 10
I. 26.5 27 24.5 30.5 26.5 28 27.5 27.5 26.5 29 26.3 28.4
II. 32.5 38.5 27 36 29 28 17 14.5 37.5 27 28.6 28.8
III. 4.5 13.5 11 1.5 10 11 7.5 14.5 12.5 8.5 9.1 9.8
IV. 23.5 40.5 27.5 34 35.5 38 35 28 17 39 27.7 35.9
V. 41 46 50 51.5 43 42.5 46 35.5 31.5 44 42.3 43.9
VI. 7.5 27 18 25 21.5 25.5 7 44.5 33.5 19 17.5 28.2
VIII. 24.5 27 34.5 32 36.5 36 34.5 38.5 28 28.5 31.6 32.4
IX. 17 46 25.5 47.5 44 47 40.5 47.5 48 48 35.0 47.2
X. 20 29 21 26.5 25.5 24.5 27.5 22 19.5 23.5 22.7 25.1
XI. 11 41.5 9.5 50 5.5 43.5 15.5 40.5 25.5 32 13.4 41.5
20.80 33.60 24.85 33.45 27.70 32.40 25.80 31.30 27.95 29.85 25.42 32.12
VII.--Absent.
5: refers to object exposed 5 seconds.
10: refers to object exposed 10 seconds.
General average: (5), 25.42 sec.; (10), 32.12 sec.
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