Capsules, 50, 61, 67 Chagrin, 191
Chain-reaction, 26, 40 Change, least noticeable, 79, 90, 111; effect on attention, 200 Children, experiments in tapping, 18; indication of fatigue, 22; reaction-time, 36; thinking-time, 47; weight judgments, 71; dis- crimination in pitch, 111; field of vision, 147; mem- ory, 215; suggestion, 22, Choice-time, 39
Clinical observation, 230 Coincidence, in association of ideas, 236
Coin illusion, 156
Cold, reaction to, 35; sensa- tions of, 87 Cold colours, 132 Cold spots, 88
Colour, effect on power of action, 76; sensations of, 120; system of, 122; effect on feelings, 179 Colour-blindness, 130 Colour-disk, 123
Duration, of tones, 101; no-
tation for, 116 Dynamograph, 74 Dynamometer, 69 Ecstasy, 202
Education, in observing, 8; in rapid perception, 9; in reaction and association, 49; in steadiness, 64; of power, 72; of touch, 85; of smell, 98; or memory, 210: see also Cross-education. Electric baton, 57 Electric shoe, 53,
Emotion, 191; as a source of illusion, 162
Energy, reserve of, 23 Enlarged angle, 153
Equation, personal, 27, 225; of colour, 131
Error, in observation, 2; of prejudice, 2; of
scious additions, 4; in ani- mal psychology, 5; of untrustworthiness of the senses, 7; of reproduction, 70; in memory, see Mem-
ory Exaltation, 191 Excitability, 191 Excitement, 16 Expectation and attention, 199; and suggestion, 217; effect on astronomical re- cords, 225
Experiment, nature of, 11; kinds of, 11; reliance on, 230; introduced into psy- chology, 251
Extent of attention, 195 Eye and ear method, 226
Flash-light pictures, 36 Fluctuating rings, 158 Fluctuating stair, 158 Focus of attention, 194 Force of act, 72 Force of will, 72
Forced association, 42 Fork, electric, 13, 29, 115; with mirror, 67; for tick- ling, 78; giant fork for lowest tones, 102; of ad- justable pitch, 107; for least noticeable differences, 108 Fork-record, 14
Free association, 42 Frog, experiments on, 81, 90 Fundamental colours, 126 Fundamental fact of binocu- lar relief, 169
Fundamental method of ac- quiring knowledge, 1
Gain by habit, 32 Gain by practice, 31 Galilei, 230
Galton whistle, 103
Game of twenty questions, 4 Gas-capsule, 67
Gauge for steadiness, 64 German type, 38 Girls, see Children Going up-stairs, 52
Graphic method, 13, 24, 33, 42, 45, 52, 53, 56, 59, 61, 75, 185
Grasp of attention, 195 Grating, 125
Green-blindness, 132, 134 Greys, 120
Guido Aretino, 116
Gun, steadiness in holding,
63 Gymnasium, 72
Habit, curve of, 31 Hallucinations, experiments upon, 218, 235 Hamilton, 248
Hearing, 101; with two ears, 116
Heart, 185 Helmholtz, 253 Herbart, 242, 248 Highest audible tone, 103; dependent on intensity, 106 Holmgren test, 137
Hot, reaction to, 35; hot and cold, 87; hot spots, 88 Hues, 121
Hundredths of a second, sign for, 15
Illusion, Aristotle's, 85; of skin space, 85; of visual space, 151; distorted squares, 153; enlarged angle, 153; filled space, 154; inclined lines, 154; parallel lines, 155; straight lines, 156; of cornice, 156; of rings, 156; mistake of at- tention, 157; of coins, 158; of depth, 159; of distance, 159; of sky, 160; of moon, 160; of Yale clock, 162; experiments upon, 218 Imagination, 235
Inaccuracy, see the various
experiments
Inclined lines, 159
Magician's training, see Robert-Houdin Magnesium oxide, 159
Map of hot and cold spots, 88 Mariotte, 148
Marker, see Time-marker Marking time, 53
Material of psychological in- vestigation, 231 Materialism, 240
Mathematics in psychology, 250
Mediate association, 215 Memory, 203, 235
Mental time, see Reaction- time, Thinking-time
Mental work, effect on ac- tion, 23
Metaphysical mania, 202 Middle tone, 113
Mirror fork, 67
Mixing yellow and blue, 128
Mixture of colours, 123
Mnemonics, 213
Racing and reaction-time, 33
Railways and colour-blind-
Rapidity of tapping, 16; of thought and action, 44; in telegraphing and typewrit- ing, 51
Reaction-key, 29 Reaction-time, 25; in disease, 33; runner's, 34; to touch, 35; to temperature, 35; to light, 35; decreases with age, 36
Recognition-time, 37 Recognition of letters, 38 Recording-drum, see Drum Recuperation, 32 Red-blindness, 132 Regard, point of, 145 Relaxation, 32, 189 Reserve of energy, 23 Rhythmic action, 52 Ring illusion, 156 Robert-Houdin, 9, 217 Romanes, 5
Room, isolated, 28; reaction-,
Singing, accuracy of, 67; of intervals, 68
Size, and distance, 159; and suggestion, 219
Skin, see Touch
Sky illusion, 160; shape of, 160
Slant writing, 24 Sleep, 238
Smell, 92; threshold of 93; see also Odours Smells, effects of, 76 Smoked drum, see Drum Smoothness, 86 Snapper-sounder, 119 Sorrow, 191
Sound, reaction to, 28 Sounds, 101; effect on grip, 75
Space, touch, 83; auditory, 118; visual, 145
Spark-coil, 15, 20, 23, 43, 45, 47, 54 Spectrum, 124 Sphygmograph, 186 Spiritualism, 240 Sportsman, 45 Spot, blind-, 148
Spots, hot and cold, 88
Squeeze, see Power
Stairway illusion, 156
Standard white, 124
Steadiness, 61; gauge for, 64; in singing, 67
Stereoscope, 165
Stimulation, 189
Straight line illusion, 156 Strength and will, 72
Strife, of nostrils, 95; binocu- lar, 174
Suggestion, 217
Suggestion blocks, 219 Symmetry, 182
System of colours, 122; of greys, 120
Tap counter, 21 Tapping, 15
Taste without smell, 96 Tastes, 76, 96
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