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Excerpt from The Measurement of Attention Our study of previous views and methods regarding the measurement of attention will naturally divide into three parts. First we shall take up the theoretical discussions con cerning the nature of degrees of attention. In the second place, we shall review the general experimental methods usually employed for inducing different degrees of attention without attempt at their accurate measurement. Finally, we shall have to study the special methods and standards pro posed or actually used for measuring attention. This, in gen eral, is the programme which we have laid out for ourselves in Part I of the present study. In the second Part we shall submit experimental evidence for the possibility of an adequate measurement of attention in terms of clearness values. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Measurement of Attention: A Thesis We give a single illustration. F, after an experiment in which the task was to repeat continuously the alphabet backwards, reports' Repeated alphabet backwards two and a half times. Practice has made this task much easier than at first, so that it is easier for the distraction (the metronomes) to catch attention. Four times for several seconds the sounds of the metronomes were the clearest processes in consciousness, perhaps 75% clear. The repeating process the complex of repeating the alphabet backwards, which was composed of visual images of dark grey lines stretching from right to left, eyes following along on lines sometimes with vague visual images of several letters in a group; accompanied by these visual images, or where visual images were lacking accompanied by the kinaesthetic images of eye movements, sibilant auditory images of letters) was only 10-20% clear. Aside from these four times the repeating processes were 85% clear, and the sound of the metronome was 10 - 15% clear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Correlation of Some Psychological and Educational Measurements: With Special Attention to the Measurement of Mental Ability Correlational Psychology is in this more or less chaotic condi tion, not only because of poor experimental technique and diverse and inadequate statistical methods, but also because of the very great complexity, importance, and number of the problems which it has elected to attack. Such complexity, importance, and num ber of problems is revealed by a very brief survey of the litera ture on correlation. But not to go farther afield, it is excellently illustrated by the problems which it is the purpose of this re Search to examine. These problems follow: I. What are the intercorrelations among our psychological and educational tests or the functions which they measure? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Attention: Theory and Practice provides a balance between a readable overview of attention and an emphasis on how theories and paradigms for the study of attention have developed. The book highlights the important issues and major findings while giving sufficient details of experimental studies, models, and theories so that results and conclusions are easy to follow and evaluate. Rather than brushing over tricky technical details, the authors explain them clearly, giving readers the benefit of understanding the motivation for and techniques of the experiments in order to allow readers to think through results, models, and theories for themselves. Attention is an accessible text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, as well as an important resource for researchers and practitioners interested in gaining an overview of the field of attention.

Excerpt from A Plethysmographic Study of Attention The following observers shared in the experiments: Drs. Bentley and Baird, Miss Jenkins and Miss Andrus, Messrs. Sa bine and Galloway. Mr. Galloway began to observe with Exp. 57. Miss Andrus did not observe after Exp. 36. The normal curves of Dr. Baird', Miss Andrus, Miss Jenkins and Mr. Sabine were recorded for a period of several months prior to the experiments with reactions. The average rates of pulse and respiration, with the mean variation of each, are given in a table. The numbers which enter into these averages were obtained by measuring the number of pulses and respirations for each 10 seconds of each record. The average rate for each record is found by taking the average of the 10 second values. The final average for each observer is made by taking the aver age of all the records. The mean variation is the average deviation of the average of each record from the average of all the records. The number of records of both pulse and respira tion is also given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1857, Vol. 5 Correlation of the Triassic Rocks in the Vale of Worcester, and at the Malvern Tunnel. By the Rev. W. S symonds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Psychology of Attention It will be perhaps not unprofitable to look for ht in a similar class of phenomena ough of less complex kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Attention For the sake of completeness, more emphasis has been placeduponthehighermentalprocessesthanisusualin works on attention. This seems desirable, both because it enables one to note how close is the relation between the factors that control attention and those that determine the more complicated intellectual processes, and because an important part of the simple perception can be under stood only if treated as a mental construction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1833 I. On the Physical Structure of the Site of Rome, and the adjoining Country. Communicated by the Author, II. Observations on the Deviation of the Compass; with Examples of its fatal influence in some melancholy and dreadful shipwrecks. By the Rev. William scoresby, F. R. S. &c. Communicated by the Author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Greek Prose Composition Part I contains, in graded lessons, the principal points of Greek syntax, the unusual and non-essential being purposely omitted. These lessons are designed for use at the beginning of the second year's study of Greek, thereby serving as a partial review of the first year's work and as an introduction to the composition work in connection with the reading of Xenophon's Anabasis. Part II contains short, simple English sentences, based on Books I - IV of the Anabasis. These should be used daily in connection with the reading of the text. Part III contains connected English prose, based on Books I - IV of the Anabasis. This is carefully graded, so that the stu dent who performs faithfully the work outlined here will be able to pass the entrance examination of any of the American colleges. The method of writing Greek at sight used in this book needs a word of explanation. It is the outgrowth of the author's personal experience in the classroom, and his belief that the best results can be obtained only by systematic practice in connection with the regular work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.