A first book in psychology / by Mary Whiton Calkins.

  • Mary Whiton Calkins
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1910
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Credit: A first book in psychology / by Mary Whiton Calkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this symbol represents the experiences of most saturated color — those in which there is least consciousness of white, of gray, or of black. Its rectangular form suggests the fact that the consciousness of red, of yellow, of green, and of blue are, as has been shown, turning-points in the color- quality series. The dotted vertical represents the ex¬ periences of white, of gray, of black. Toward the top, the surface of the pyramid represents the experiences of pale green, of straw-yellow, of sky-blue, and of pink; toward the bottom the experiences of indigo-blue, of brown, of dark red, and of bottle-green, are represented. “All these tones,” to quote Titchener again, “are the most saturated possible, the most coloured colours of their kind,” but “if we peel the figure” (like an onion), “leaving the black and white poles untouched, we get precisely what we had before, save that all the colour tones are less saturated, lie so much nearer to the neutral tones.” 2. Visual Intensities: Experiences of Brightness One cannot be conscious of a color, a red or a blue, for ex¬ ample, or of a colorless light, a white or black or gray, with¬ out being at the same time conscious of brightness. The experience of brightness as well as that of color or of gray, is a distinct and unanalyzable element of consciousness. It cannot, of course, be separated from the consciousness of colorless light with which it is combined, but it may be per¬ fectly distinguished from it. The visual intensities are, as every one admits, indefinite in number. They are further¬ more distinguished from sensational qualities of color and of Qualitative,” p. 5, for the quoted sentences; and “ Experimental Psychology, Student’s Manual, Qualitative,” p. 3, for the outline of the figure. D
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