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
In the movement series of the _A_ and _B_ sets, movements of parts of
the body were chosen. But the number of such movements which a person
can conveniently make while reading words shown through an aperture is
limited, and as stated above no single word was ever used in two
couplets. These were now exhausted. In the _C_ set, therefore,
movements employing objects were substituted. The objects lay on the
table in a row in front of the subject, occupying a space about 50 cm.
from left to right, and were covered by a black cambric cloth. They
were thus all exposed at the same moment by the subject who, at a
signal, laid back the cloth immediately before the series began, and
in the same manner covered them at the end of the third presentation.
Thus the objects were or might be all in view at once, and as a result
the subject usually formed a single mental image of the four objects.
With this kind of material it was no longer necessary for the operator
to show the subject in advance of the series what the movements were
in order to avoid hesitation and confusion, for the objects were of
such a nature as obviously to suggest in connection with the words the
proper movements.
TABLE IV.
SHOWING RECALL AFTER TWO, NINE AND SIXTEEN DAYS FOR TWO SUBJECTS, AND
AFTER FIVE HOURS AND TWENTY-ONE HOURS FOR FOUR OTHER SUBJECTS.
Days. Two. Nine. Sixteen Two. Nine. Sixteen
N. O. N. O. N. O. V. M. V. M. V. M.
Series _M._
C^{1-4} 4 4 4 4 3 2 3 2 2 2 1 1
C^{5-8} 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 0
C^{9-12} 3 2 3 1 3 0 2 4 3 2 2 1
C^{13-16} 4 3(1) 4 2(1) 4 2(1) 3 4 2 3 2 3
Total 13 1(1) 13 9(1) 12 5(1) 9 11 8 9 6 5
Per cent. 81 73 81 60 75 33 56 69 50 56 38 31
_Mo_
C^{1-4} 2 4 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 2 1 2
C^{5-8} 3 2 4 1 3 1 4 3(1) 4 3(1) 2 2(1)
C^{9-12} 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 2
C^{13-16} 0 0(1) 0 0(1) 0 0(1) 1(1) 4 1(1) 2 0(1) 0
Total 5 7(1) 5 3(1) 4 3(1) 6(1) 14(1) 6(1) 8(1) 3(1) 6(1)
Per cent. 31 46 31 20 25 20 40 93 40 53 20 40
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