This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...a choice between two titles (one of each type), from which they should sketch out a plan for an essay. The 1 With the exception that W. M. failed to take one of the topics for exposition. time allowed for this was five minutes. The topics submitted on the first occasion were: "The Capture of a Fortress " and "The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...a choice between two titles (one of each type), from which they should sketch out a plan for an essay. The 1 With the exception that W. M. failed to take one of the topics for exposition. time allowed for this was five minutes. The topics submitted on the first occasion were: "The Capture of a Fortress " and "The Friendship of Books;" on the second occasion, "The Escape of a Prisoner" and " The Influence of Newspapers." The length of the written compositions, their manner of development, the kind of topic chosen, and the character of the plans made for them, are sources of information as to the imaginative type of the individual. Further information was sought by general questions in regard to individual tastes and tendencies, such as the favorite reading of the subject, his fondness for reflective games, the theater, opera, etc. IV. Attention. 1. The degree of attention habitually exercised by an individual was measured by the quickness and accuracy with which a certain given task was performed. The task chosen for this purpose was the cancellation of every letter a from the words of a printed page. In order that the operation might not become too mechanical, the subject was sometimes requested to cancel the letters instead. Proof pages (12 mo.) of the English translation of Kiilpe's " Introduction to Philosophy " were used for the cancellation, the pages averaging about 350 words. At a signal from the experimenter the subject began reading to himself at a normal rate, crossing every a as it came to his notice, but never going back to cancel those overlooked when they were first passed over. As soon as the page was finished the subject gave a signal. The experimenter was thus enabled to read from the stopwa...
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