Fact and fable in psychology . Fig. 23.—I. Counting the strokes of a metronome. Auto-matograpii record. Time of record, 35 seconds. Direction of the atten-tion >^^—^. Subject facing j-» ->? II. Counting pendulum oscil-lations. Automatograpli record. Time of record, 25 seconds. Direc-tion of the attention /j^—?^, Subject facing «^> Jfc. subject of this record is a well-known writer andnovelist; and his description of his own mental pro-cesses entirely accords with this result; he is a good. Fig. 24.—From A to A, reading colors; from A on, countingPENDULUM oscillations. Automatograph re


Fact and fable in psychology . Fig. 23.—I. Counting the strokes of a metronome. Auto-matograpii record. Time of record, 35 seconds. Direction of the atten-tion >^^—^. Subject facing j-» ->? II. Counting pendulum oscil-lations. Automatograpli record. Time of record, 25 seconds. Direc-tion of the attention /j^—?^, Subject facing «^> Jfc. subject of this record is a well-known writer andnovelist; and his description of his own mental pro-cesses entirely accords with this result; he is a good. Fig. 24.—From A to A, reading colors; from A on, countingPENDULUM oscillations. Automatograph record. Time of record,from A to A, 35 seconds: from A on, 25 seconds. Direction of theattention ;^> >. Subject facing >» >. visualizer, and visual impressions and memory-imagesdominate his mental habits. We may next turn to Fig, 24. The subject wasasked to call the names of a series of small patches of 332 FACT AND FABLE IN PSYCHOLOGY color hanging upon the wall in front of him. He didthis with some uncertainty for thirty-five seconds, andduring this time his hand on the automatograph movedfrom A to A. At the latter point he was asked tocount the oscillations of a pendulum; this entirelychanged the movement, the hand at once movingrapidly toward the pendulum. The pendulum was a


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