Mary Whiton Calkins,
Experimental Psychology at Wellesley College
(1892)
“ Several forms are in tri-dimensional space, and we have one elaborate description of a form stretching away from the subject, in which the more prominent numbers stand out like mountain-peaks and hide the intervening ones. ”
Mary Whiton Calkins,
Experimental Psychology at Wellesley College
(1892)
“ This is a complicated problem of expediency, the question of the equipment of the laboratory, of the relative amount of laboratory work, of the proper direction of students’ experiments. Such questions are especially prominent in cases in which psychology is a required subject, and in which our course is a general one and must be adapted to students without especial scientific training or without particular interest in experimental work. ”
Mary Whiton Calkins,
Experimental Psychology at Wellesley College
(1892)
“ A more extended experiment in association was later carried out. Each student wrote a list of thirty words, so associated that each suggested the next. The starting point was the word “book,” suggested in writing, but not read until the time of the experiment. Each list was studied by its writer, who marked with a V the names of objects or events which were visualized; indicated with a C those connected with childhood life; classified the association, as persistent or as persistent (of quality or of object) ”
