The Science of Human Nature - A Psychology for Beginners by William Henry Pyle
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the positive colors and lights and shades. The experiment is best
performed on a bright day. 6. _Adaptation._ Put on colored glasses or hold before the eyes a large piece of colored glass. Note that at first everything takes on the color of the glass. What change comes over objects after the glasses have been worn for fifteen or twenty minutes? Describe your experience after removing the glasses. Plan and perform other experiments showing adaptation. For illustration, go from a very bright room into a dark room. Go from a very dark room to a light one. Describe your experience. 7. _Contrast._ Take a medium gray paper and lay it on white and various shades of gray and black paper. Describe and explain what you find. 8. _Color Contrast._ Darken a room by covering all the windows except one window pane. Cover it with cardboard. In the cardboard cut two windows six inches long and one inch wide. Over one window put colored glass or any other colored material through which some light will pass. By holding up a pencil you can cast two shadows on a piece of paper. What color are the shadows? One is a contrast color induced by the other; which one? Explain the results. 9. Make a study of the way in which women dress. What do you learn about color effects? 10. From the Stoelting Company you can obtain the Holmgren worsteds for studying color blindness. 11. _Defective Vision._ Procure a Snellen's test chart and determine the visual acuity of the members of the class. Seat the subject twenty feet |
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