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
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
A. 11 28.32 11.29 117 14.90 114 10.35 16.05 10.44
B. 29 5.79 270.44 5 0.25 5 138.80 4.98 251.08
C. 18 7.88 43.08 64 3.94 63 67.49 4.81 62.07
D. 14 23.28 190.07 6 31.66 5 204.60 25.80 193.89
F. 10 12.67 86.07 230 1.95 230 67.92 2.40 10.09
G. 21 21.88 20.39 190 9.97 184 19.37 11.15 19.47
H. 21 15.27 73.27 47 10.30 47 84.48 11.84 81.02
I. 26 9.77 53.83 96 5.06 94 61.34 6.06 59.72
J. 26 3.59 32.18 209 1.40 208 31.69 1.64 31.75
K. 21 21.63 71.90 53 14.75 51 70.04 16.70 31.83
Averages. 13.48 91.25 6.46 32.14 7.60 41.86
There were ten subjects in most of the experiments, and the marked
differences in the individual records which were evident in the
previous experiments did not exist here except in the case of A., for
whom alone the time required to obtain the suppression exceeded the
time of absence of the suppressed image.
In several experiments the subjects were unable to suppress the
indicated image, which in five cases was the image at the center of a
disc and in two cases the outer portion of the disc. Further, five
failures were by one subject, D., and one each by A. and F. The
statistical report here given includes only the results of the
successful experiments. Forty-four of the one hundred and ninety-seven
were completely successful, as the suppressed image did not return
throughout the entire period. The following table shows the grouping
of the experiments according to the recurrence of the suppressed
image:
Returned 0 times, 44
" 1 " 26
" 2 " 18
" 3 " 25
" 4 " 16
" 5 " 16
" 6 to 10 " 28
" more than 10 times, 24
Total, 197
Seventy-three and three fifths per cent. of all the experiments have
five or fewer returns of the suppressed images.
The subjects suppressed the image as soon as possible after each
return, the average time taken to accomplish these later suppressions
being 6.46 sec., while the average time of absence of the suppressed
image was 32.14 sec.
Including the first efforts and the first absences of the suppressed
image, the average time required to suppress the image was 7.60 sec.,
and the average time of absence of the suppressed image was 41.86 sec.
Arranging the subjects according to the average time they required to
accomplish a suppression, we have the following order. J. and F. had
more recurrences of the suppressed image than any of the other
subjects.
J. 1.64 sec.
F. 2.40 "
C. 4.80 "
B. 4.98 "
I. 6.06 "
G. 11.15 "
H. 11.84 "
A. 16.05 "
K. 16.70 "
D. 25.80 "
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