Perplexities of Consciousness, Chapter Five:

Titchener's Introspective Training Manual

in draft

The unifying theme of this book is people's incompetence in assessing their own stream of experience, even in what would seem to be favorable circumstances.  In this chapter I consider the possibility that old-fashioned "introspective training" in Titchener's style might help produce more accurate reports.  In particular, I examine Titchener's treatment of auditory "difference tones" heard when a musical interval is played, his treatment of the "flight of colors" in afterimages following exposure to bright white light, and his treatment of subtle visual illusions.

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