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
These twelve instances occurred with two subjects, three (to left)
occurring with K. and nine (three each right, up, down) occurring with
H. The cause was the same in all twelve instances, both H. and K.
reporting that (in these cases) they had great difficulty in obtaining
a reasonably vivid and distinct image when directed to move the image
in the direction in which the object had been moved. The attempt to
move the image resulted in a vague image spread continuously over the
entire area that had been covered by the moving object, and the effort
to obtain the image at the desired position only was serious and took
an appreciably longer time than usual. It is to be noted, also, that
the time usually taken by H. is uniformly very much greater than the
time taken by the other subjects. Yet, even with these instances
included, the average time of all movements of the image in the
direction in which the object had been moved is less than the average
time of the other movements, the former being 2.41 seconds, the
latter, 2.59 seconds.
TABLE VIII.
MOVEMENTS OF A SINGLE IMAGE.
I., OBJECT PREVIOUSLY MOVED; II., OBJECT NOT MOVED.
Average Time Given in Seconds.
Subjects: B. G. H.
I II I II I II
To right, 0.57 1.30 0.55 1.46 6.95 7.15
Return, 0.35 0.58 0.27 0.92 5.40 4.51
To left, 0.60 1.06 0.45 1.15 5.95 6.42
Return, 0.40 0.73 0.35 0.89 4.10 4.41
Up, 0.42 1.05 0.45 0.99 6.85 5.96
Return, 0.42 0.46 0.25 0.76 5.30 4.36
Down, 0.57 1.10 0.47 0.82 8.77 5.85
Return, 0.42 0.45 0.27 0.06 5.55 4.40
General 0.54 1.13 0.48 1.10 7.13 6.34
Averages, 0.40 0.55 0.28 0.66 5.09 4.42
Subjects: I. K.
I II I II
To right, 2.05 1.28 2.35 4.80
Return, 1.15 0.67 1.17 2.40
To left, 1.30 1.34 2.57 4.63
Retur, 1.22 0.62 1.60 2.73
Up, 1.85 1.62 1.42 3.29
Return, 0.87 0.86 1.27 1.90
Down, 1.80 1.36 2.30 3.27
Return, 1.42 0.72 1.25 1.56
General 1.75 1.40 2.16 4.00
Averages, 1.16 0.72 1.32 2.15
If the record of H. is omitted from Table VII., _a, c, _and _d_, and
that of K. from VII., _b_ (as these are the records of the twelve
exceptions), the former average becomes 1.44 seconds, the latter 1.86
seconds.
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