Sort each observed change by what caused it.
Groups: Simultaneous contrast, a neighbour in space · Successive contrast, a neighbour in time · Neither: a real difference in the paint
- Warm underlayer alters hue
- Ochre pales on dark ground
- Added white lightens paint
- Grey warms by blue
- Yellow dulls after strong
- Green afterimage of red
Hints
- Two of the six survive being cut out and moved elsewhere.
- Two of them depend on where the eye has just been.
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Simultaneous contrast, a neighbour in space: Grey warms by blue, Ochre pales on dark ground
Successive contrast, a neighbour in time: Green afterimage of red, Yellow dulls after strong
Neither: a real difference in the paint: Added white lightens paint, Warm underlayer alters hue
The third column is the control condition and the reason to sort at all. A student who attributes every difference to contrast stops correcting real mistakes, and a student who attributes none of them starts repainting passages that were right.
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