W. B. Pillsbury

psychologist

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measurement of attention

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    In attention: 19th-century roots

    In 1906 another prominent psychologist, W.B. Pillsbury, suggested three methods for measuring attention. The first relied upon tests that measured attention through performance of a task judged to require a high degree of attention; the second measured diminished attention through decreased performance; and the third gauged the strength of attention…

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