Are the intensity differences of sensation quantitative? (1) / by Charles S. Myers.
- Charles Samuel Myers
- Date:
- [1913?]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Are the intensity differences of sensation quantitative? (1) / by Charles S. Myers. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[From THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. VI. Pt. 2, October, 1913.] \AU Rights reserved.] ARE THE INTENSITY DIFFERENCES OF SENSATION QUANTITATIVE?1 I. § 1. § 2. § 3. § 4. § 5. § 6. § 7. § 8. § 9. § io. § 11. § 12. By CHARLES S. MYERS. I. Introduction. Initial assumptions. ‘Intensiveness’ ‘extensiveness' and ‘ protensiveness.’ Intensity and movement. Mental ‘processes’ and mental 1products’ II. The Nature of Intensity Changes. The biological conditions of consciousness. The 1 all or none ’ principle in spinal reflexes. The same principle in muscle-fibre. The same principle in nerve-fibre. The same principle in the heat and cold spot system of sensibility. Pain in relation to other forms of cutaneous sensibility. The grading of ‘clonic’ spinal reflexes. The grading of auditory sensations. The grading of 1tonic’ spinal reflexes. The grading of ‘tonic’ sensations. Intensity, quality, and extensity in graded ‘tonic’ sensibility. Suggested relation of the attributes of colourless and colour sensations. III. Conclusions. I. § 1. I ASSUME at the outset that the three following propositions will meet with general acceptance2. The first is that, whereas Weber’s law is a direct expression of the data of sense experience, Fechner’s 1 A contribution to the Symposium presented at the Joint Meeting of the British Psychological Society, the Aristotelian Society, and the Mind Association in London, 7 June, 1913. 2 Reasons for accepting them will be found in my Textbook of Experimental Psychology, 2nd ed. 1911, i. 249-253. J. of Psych, vi](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3061983x_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
