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The Story of the Mind

CHAPTER IV
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I am sorry that my list did not include yellow.

The newspaper was, at reaching distance (9 to 10 inches) and a little more (up to 14 inches), as attractive as the average of the colours, and even as much so as the red; but this is probably due to the fact that the newspaper experiments came after a good deal of practice in reaching after colours, and a more exact association between the stimulus and its distance.

At 15 inches and over, the newspaper was refused in 93 per cent of the cases, while blue was refused at that distance in only 75 per cent, and red in 83 per cent.
_Distance._--In regard to the question of distance, the child persistently refused to reach for anything put 16 inches or more away from her.

At 15 inches she refused 91 per cent of all the cases, 90 per cent of the colour cases, and, as I have said, 93 per cent of the newspaper cases.

At nearer distances we find the remarkable uniformity with which the safe-distance association works at this early age.


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