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
The general results of the first series of experiments with this
apparatus were similar to those already given, but were based on a
very much larger number of judgments. They show at once that the short
filled spaces are overestimated, while the longer spaces are
underestimated. The uniformity of this law has seemed to me one of the
most significant results of this entire investigation. In the results
already reported from the experiments with the former apparatus, I
have mentioned the fact that the judgments upon the distances
fluctuate more widely when one is filled and the other open, than when
both are open. This fluctuation appeared again in a pronounced way in
the present experiments. I now set about to discover the cause of this
variation, which was so evidently outside of the limits of Weber's
law.
TABLE XI.
I. II.
Subjects. R. B. A. R. B. A.
2= 3.1 3.2 3.7 2.7 2.5 3.1
3= 4.5 4.4 4.1 4.1 4.0 3.6
4= 5.3 5.0 4.3 4.2 4.6 4.6
5= 6.0 5.1 5.8 5.9 5.2 4.3
6= 6.8 5.6 6.2 6.9 5.3 6.0
7= 7.4 7.2 6.9 7.6 7.3 6.8
8= 8.1 8.4 7.3 8.3 9.7 7.8
9= 9.3 9.0 8.5 9.5 8.9 8.7
Filled 10= 10.1 10.0 8.1 10.3 10.0 9.2
Spaces. 11= 10.5 9.3 9.7 10.6 8.7 9.6
12= 11.7 10.6 10.6 11.8 9.7 10.2
13= 12.3 10.9 10.9 11.1 10.2 9.6
14= 12.2 11.5 12.2 10.4 9.6 11.3
15= 13.6 12.3 11.9 13.1 10.1 9.6
16= 14.1 13.5 14.1 12.3 13.2 13.3
17= 14.9 12.9 14.6 14.1 12.6 13.7
18= 15.0 15.3 14.9 15.0 15.3 13.8
19= 15.2 14.6 15.2 14.1 13.9 14.2
20= 17.1 16.5 15.7 16.1 16.4 14.7
The first line of group I. reads: 'When the finger-tip was
passed over a filled space of 2 cm., the subject _R_ measured
off 3.1 cm. on the open space, the subject _B_ 3.2 cm., and
the subject _A_ 3.7.' In group II., the numbers represent the
distance measured off when both spaces were unfilled.
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