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 two half-hours in a week during which all the work of one subject
was done fell on approximately the same part of the day. When a number
of groups of 4 series each were to be tested on a given day they were
taken in the order of their recency of learning. Thus on March 7 the
order for _Hu_ was B^{13-16}, B^{9-12}, B^{5-8}.
Henceforth there was also rotation within a given four series. As
there were always sixteen series in a set, the effects of practice and
fatigue within a given half-hour were thus eliminated.
In the following table the results of the _B_ set are given. Its
arrangement is the same as in Table 1., except that the figures
indicate the number of absent terms correctly recalled out of four
couplets instead of seven or five. Where blanks occur, the series was
discontinued on account of lack of recall. As in Table 1., the tables
in the first, third and fifth columns show successive stages of the
same series. Immediate recall is omitted because with rare exceptions
it was perfect, the test being given merely as an aid in learning.
TABLE II.
SHOWING RECALL AFTER TWO, NINE, AND SIXTEEN DAYS.
Days. Two. Nine. Sixteen. Two. Nine. Sixteen.
N. O. N. O. N. O. V. M. V. M. V. M.
Series. _M._
B^{1-4} 2(1) 4 1(1) 2 1(1) 2 4 4 4 2 4 2
B^{5-8} 3 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1
B^{9-12} 2 3 0 3 0 2 3 2 2 0 2 2
B^{13-16} 2(1) 3 2(1) 0 2(1) 0 1 2 1 0 1 0
Total 9(2) 11 5(2) 6 4(2) 5 10 10 9 3 8 5
Per cent. 64 69 36 38 29 31 63 63 56 19 50 31
_S._
B^{1-4}¹ 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1
B^{5-8} 0 0 0 0
B^{9-12}¹ 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
B^{13-16}² 0(2) 1 0(2) 1 0(2) 1 0 0(1) 0 0(1) 0 0(1)
Total 0(2) 4 0(2) 1 0(2) 1 0 2(1) 0 1(1) 0 0(1)
Per cent. 0 25 0 6 0 6 0 13 0 7 0 0
_Hu._
B^{1-4} 1(1) 4 0(1) 1 0(1) 2 1 3 0 2 0 0
B^{5-8} 0 1(1) 0 0(1) 0 0(1) 0 1 0 1 0 1
B^{9-12} 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
B^{13-16} 0(1) 0 0(1) 0 0(1) 0 0 4 0 0 0 0
Total 1(2) 6(1) 0(2) 1(1) 0(2) 3(1) 1 8 0 4 0 1
Per cent. 7 40 0 7 0 20 6 50 0 25 0 6
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