Attention and interest : a study in psychology and education / by Felix Arnold.

  • Arnold, Felix, 1879-
Date:
1910
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    The following tables give in seconds the peri- ods of distinct vision and indistinct vision, under normal conditions, and with accompanying stim- ulation from different sources. The attention in each case was fixated on a revolving disc hav- ing on it a circle of grey (Masson disc) .* SUBJECTS | NorMa es peeuper SMoKING URRENT Loy Nev) a etapa a ae Av. of 7 tests | 6.0 | 4.9 |10.9 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 9.0 | 7.1 |] 4.2 |11.3 ErHER Batsam Single tests | 6.7 | 6.7 [13.4] 5.0 | 5.4 | 10.4] 3.3 | 4.1 | 7.44 V.=visible, N.V.—not visible, 7'.—total. Induction current. A slight current was passed through the left hand while the subject was looking at the Masson disc. Smoking. Subject smoked during the process of fixation. Ether, balsam. Odors were smelled during the experiment. TaB_e I suchen mit der Masson’sschem Scheibe,’ Phil. Stud., 8:388-402. Pillsbury, W. B., ‘Attention Waves as a Means of Measuring Fatigue, dm. Jour. of Psych. 14:277-288. Seashore, C. E., ‘Die Aufmerksamkeitsschwankungen, Zeit. f. Psych., 39:448-450. Slaughter, J. W., ‘The Fluctuations of the Attention in some of their Psychological Relations, Am. Jour. of Psych., 12:313-334. Taylor, R. W., ‘The Effect of Certain Stimuli upon the Attention Wave, Am. Jour. of Psych., 12:335-345. Wiersma, E., ‘Unter- suchungen tiber die sogenannten Aufmerksamkeitsschwankungen,’ Zeit. f. Psych., 26:168-200, 28:179-198, 31:110-126. For further references see Pillsbury, W. B., Attention, and Titchener, E. B., The Psych. of Feeling and Attention. *From, Taylor, R. W., Ibid., 337, 339.