Attitude in Relation to the Psychophysical Judgment, Vol. 28: A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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Excerpt from Attitude in Relation to the Psychophysical Judgment, Vol. 28: A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

In the discussion which follows each quotation from the re orts of the Observers is prefaced (a) by the symbol designating the 0 server, (b) by a number which stands for the number of the series under the final instruction from which the quotation is taken, and usually (c) by a word (e. G., greater') which indicates the judgment. When the observer's remarks are general, (c) is sometimes omitted.

General Adjustment of the Observers to the Conditions of the Experiment - The interpretation of the instructions gave, in general, some difficulty. Especially were the observers uncertain of the meaning of the term attitude. Bo and R complained that they were not necessarily aware of their attitudes, and that they could therefore not be expected always to report them.

B0, 9. I still do not know what a reportable attitude is. I feel sure what some such attitudes are: as doubt or expectation, but I can't tell whether some of these other factors which characterize the experience are attitudinal in the sense of the experiment or not.

B0, 63. I can't report expectation as a shift in attitude, because I can inhibit the conscious part of it and voluntarily take up a prae tically neutral set; but whenever I give equal' under such conditions I wonder if there wasn't some unconscious set or attitude which deter mined it.

Bo, 68. I can't report this suspected expectation as a shift of attitude simply because it isn't generally conscious. I suspect it merely because I am often surprised when I get equal at the beginning and 'greater' at the end of a series.

R, 74. There was a feeling of uncertainty, which has not been previously present. There was no change of attitude. I don't know what a change of attitude is, or that I ever experienced one in this whole experiment.

Bi showed particular difficulty in adapting himself to the experimental conditions. He was troubled throughout by the instructions and easily disturbed by chance distractions.

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