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1 online resource (xvi, pages, 1 leaf, 147 pages) illustrations (including forms) diagrams |
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"The experimental exercises include units on sensation, perception, attention, motor processes, association, memory, imagery, and affection"--Publisher. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved) |
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"It has been our aim in preparing this manual to describe the experiments in such a manner that students who have had only an introductory course in psychology may be able to perform them without further assistance. With this in mind we have tried to give full and minute descriptions even to the point of explaining what may seem obvious to many. We have also given exact directions in regard to the recording of results, even to the extent of supplying models for the tables when necessary, for we consider that training in the systematic arrangement of results is one of the purposes of an experimental course. The selection of the experiments has been conditioned by the following practical and theoretical requirements: 1. It should be possible to perform all the experiments in a half-course of five hours a week. 2. It should be possible to perform the experiments with very simple and inexpensive instruments. In most instances when complicated instruments have been employed an additional experiment with simple apparatus has been described. Two or three experiments, owing to their importance, have been included which demand special instruments. 3. It is necessary in most institutions that the experiments be performed by the entire class in one room. It is obvious, therefore, that some experiments in audition, vision, etc., had to be omitted. 4. The experiments should not be too difficult for students beginning psychology. In fact it is hoped that the book may prove useful not only for class work, but for private students who desire an introductory knowledge of experimental psychology. 5. The experiments should present the most essential features in method and the important facts of psychology. 6. It should be possible to obtain clean-cut results and they should be capable of treatment by the student. 7. The experiments should not be too fatiguing as would be a complete verification of Weber's Law, nor disagreeable as are many of the taste and smell experiments. In order to meet these conditions, compromises had to be made, and for one reason or another some experiments have been omitted which appear in standard textbooks. On the other hand, new experiments, arranged to cover what seemed to us important facts, have been included. Questions have been appended to each experiment. Most of the experiments are to be performed by the students working in pairs. One student acts as subject, the other as experimenter. A few experiments, entitled "Individual Experiment" are performed by each student upon himself. Some important experiments, however, could not be arranged to be performed by each pair of students separately. These are entitled "Class Experiment." In these the instructor or one of the students acts as experimenter and the class as a whole acts as subject"--Introduction |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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PsycBooks |
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Psychology.
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Psychology, Experimental -- Laboratory manuals
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Psychology
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psychology.
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Psychology, Experimental
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Psychology
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Laboratory manuals
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Electronic book
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Allport, Floyd Henry, 1890-1978.
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