A Text-Book of Experimental Psychology: Volume 2, Laboratory Exercises
With Laboratory Exercises

First published in 1925, this second volume of Dr Charles Myers' two-part textbook suggests practical experiments to test psychological phenomena.

Charles S. Myers (Author), F. C. Bartlett (Author)

9781107626027, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 December 2013

130 pages
21.6 x 13.8 x 0.8 cm, 0.16 kg

First published in 1925 as the third edition of a 1911 original, this second volume of Dr Charles Myers' two-part textbook suggests practical experiments to test psychological phenomena, such as reaction times and optical illusions. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of experimental psychology, or the work of Myers, one of the most ground-breaking English psychologists of the twentieth century.

1. Introductory
2. Free association
3. Perception and reproduction of forms
4. Recognition and recall
5. Process of construction
6. Process of analysis
7. Method of mean error
8. Limiting method
9. Method of serial groups
10. Constant method
11. Method of equal appearing intervals
12. Experiences of identity and difference
13. Absolute impression
14. Equal-appearing intervals of brightness
15. Reaction times
16. Simple and composite reactions
17. Heat and cold spots
18. Colour vision
19. Visual acuity
20. Auditory experience
21. Perception of form and size
22. Perception of distance and movement
23. Span of attention
24. Imaging
25. Memory
26. Muscular and mental fatigue
27. Mental tests
28. Cutaneous and thermal sensations
29. Labyrinthine and motor sensations
30. Gustatory sensations
31. Olfactory sensations
32. Visual sensations
33. Auditory sensations
34. Olfactory sensations
35. Sensory adaptation
36. Tactual localisation
37. Binocular experience
38. Optical illusions
39. Estimation of time intervals
40. Rhythm
41. The memory image
42. Muscular practice
43. Fluctuations of attention
44. Expression of feeling
45. Statistical methods.

Subject Areas: Experimental psychology [JML]