"Rod Hetzel" wrote:
1. What sort of experiments did Wundt and his colleagues conduct in their
investigations of objective sensations and the subsequent subjective feelings? How
sophisticated were these experiments?
Rod, if my memory of History serves, I believe that many of
Wundt's introspection experiments were done in the context
of response-time studies. For example, a ball was dropped
to a platform making a loud noise. Subjects were required
to press a key of some sort either: 1) when they were
clearly (subjectively) aware of the perception of the noise, or
2) as quickly as possible following the noise. RTs in these
conditions differed substantially (with 1 being slower than 2),
and the reported subjective experiences of the two groups
differed, with respect to senses of strain, surprise, etc.,
but I can't remember exactly how.
Can anyone help?
-Mike
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