Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1: Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
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Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1: Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
Psychology, Experimental
The _A_ set was given to three subjects. The results of each subject
are arranged separately in the following table. In the tests the words
were required in A^{1-4}, in A^{5-16} the numbers. The figures show
the number of terms correctly recalled out of seven couplets in
A^{1-12} and out of five couplets in A^{13-16}, _exclusive_ of
indirect association couplets. The figures in brackets indicate the
number of correctly recalled couplets per series in which indirect
associations occurred. The total number correctly recalled in any
series is their sum. The figures in the per cent. row give the
percentage of correctly recalled couplets left after discarding both
from the number recalled and from the total number of couplets given
those in which indirect associations occurred. This simply diminished
the subject's number of chances. A discussion of the propriety of this
elimination will be found later. In _A_^{1-12} the absent terms had to
be recalled exactly in order, to be correct, but in _A_^{13-16}, on
account of the greater difficulty of the three-place numbers, any were
considered correct when two of the three figures were recalled, or
when all three figures were correct but two were reversed in position,
_e.g._, 532 instead of 523. _N_ means noun series, _O_ object, _V_
verb, and _M_ movement series. Series _A_^{1}, _A_^{5}, _A_^{9},
_A_^{13} are to be found in the first and third columns, _A_^{2},
_A_^{6}, _A_^{10}, _A_^{14} in the second and fourth, _A_^{3},
_A_^{7}, _A_^{11}, _A_^{15}, in the fifth and seventh, and _A_^{4},
_A_^{8}, _A_^{12}, _A_^{16} in the sixth and eighth columns.
TABLE I.
SHOWING IMMEDIATE RECALL AND RECALL AFTER TWO DAYS.
_M_.
Series. Im. Rec. Two Days. Im. Rec. Two Days.
N. O. N. O. V. M. V. M.
A^{1-4} 6 7 3 1 6 7 2 1
A^{5-8} 5(1) 6 3(1) 6 6(1) 7 5(1) 6
A^{9-12} 7 7 4 6 7 6(1) 7 6(1)
A^{13-16} 4 5 2 2 5 3 2 2
Total. 22(1) 25 12(1) 15 24(1) 23(1) 16(1) 15(1)
Per cent. 88 96 48 58 96 92 64 66
_S_.
Series. Im. Rec. Two Days. Im. Rec. Two Days.
N. O. N. O. V. M. V. M.
A^{1-4} 6(1) 6 0 0 7 7 0 0
A^{5-8} 6 7 1 3 6 7 0 3
A^{9-12} 7 6 2 2 5 7 0 0
A^{13-16} 5 5 0 0 5 5 3 0
Total. 24(1) 24 3 5 23 26 3 3
Per cent. 96 92 12 19 88 100 12 12
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