Psychological Review
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ISBN13: 9780217538480
Paperback|9780217538480
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: STUDIES FROM THE HARVARD PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY. (I.) BY PROFESSOR HUGO MUNSTERBERG. A. Memory. (With the assistance of Mr. J. Bigham.) The experimental study of memory, important both for psychology and for pedagogics, is as yet only begun. The only experiments we have are those of Ebbinghaus, which cover simply the question of the influence of repetition and of the time-interval, made with but one material (syllables), and with only one subject. Many other questions arise if we wish to understand the mechanism and the conditions of reproduction and memory. We began our systematic study of these questions by an investigation the purpose of which was to determine the action of disparate senses in recollection, especially to discover whether the different senses act at the same time independently, or help, or hinder each other. Collateral questions as to the influence of various modes of presentation, of various content, etc., could be answered by the same experiments. Studies on the reproduction of more complicated content, on the influence of the filling of time-interval, etc., will be reported later. The simple apparatus used in the experiments consists of several series of ten small squares of paper of different colors, and of several series of black numbers, each one mounted upon a square white card of the same size as the colored squares. For audible presentations the names of the colors or numbers were spoken by the conductor of the work, while for visible presentations those colors and numbers were exposed upon a black background. The subjects were supplied with several corresponding series of colored squares (3 cm) andmounted numbers. After learning the presented series the subjects arranged these small numbers and colored papers in the order titjj given s...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217538480 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217538487 |
| Weight | 1.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.04 In |
| List Price | $29.50 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 466 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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