| 1869 - 362 pages
...tasks of increasing degrees of complexity which should make ever greater demands on the mind, until attention should pass from a fully concentrated to a completely distracted state. The work was begun in full sympathy with Wundt's position, and, indeed, was understood as but a mere... | |
| Ludwig Reinhold Geissler - 1909 - 72 pages
...experiments. Their object was "to arrange a series of tasks of increasing degrees of complexity which should make ever greater demands on the mind, until the attention...from a fully concentrated to a completely distracted state".8 Although he accumulated bulky introspective records, Drew does not state in how far he succeeded... | |
| Karl M. Dallenbach - 1913 - 54 pages
...distractors were proportionally increased and complicated. Habituation was therefore reduced to a minimum. In choosing the distractors, our ideal was that of...not successful in obtaining such a series of graded distractors. There appear to be four main reasons. (l) A change in the stimulus may cause the corresponding... | |
| John Langdon Stenquist, Edward Lee Thorndike, Marion Rex Trabue - 1915 - 660 pages
...intensity.17 Thus he arranged a series of increasing degrees of complexity which should make greater and greater demands on the mind, until the attention should pass from a fully concentrated state to a completely distracted state. But in this he was not very successful. He remarks that although... | |
| John Ellis Evans - 1916 - 312 pages
...intensity.17 Thus he arranged a series of increasing degrees of complexity which should make greater and greater demands on the mind, until the attention should pass from a fully concentrated state to a completely distracted state. But in this he was not very successful. He remarks that although... | |
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