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 verbs were similar to the verbs of the couplet series. There was a
tendency in the verb series among most of the subjects to make a more
or less connected story of the verbs and thus some subjects could
retain all ten words for two days. This was an element not present in
the couplet verb series, according to the subjects, nor in any other
series, and the subjects were, therefore, directed to eliminate it by
imaging each action in a different place and connected with different
persons. The effort was nearly successful, some of the subjects
connecting two or three verbs, and others none. The movements employed
ten objects which were uncovered and covered by the subject as in the
_C_ set. The exposure for the verbs and movements was 5 secs. for each
word, or 50 secs. for the series. The tests were the same as in the
series of ten nouns and ten objects, but in a number of cases (to be
specified in the table) it seemed best to shorten the interval for
deferred recall to one day.
The series were always given in pairs--a noun and an object series, or
a verb and a movement series forming a pair. Only one pair was given
per day and no other series of any kind were given on that day.
Usually several days intervened between the II. test of one pair and
the learning of the next, but in a little less than half of the cases
a new pair was learned on the same day shortly after the II. test of
the preceding pair.
The noun-object pairs and the verb-movement pairs were not given in
any definite order with reference to each other.
The figures in the following table indicate the number of words out of
ten which the subject correctly recalled and placed in their proper
columns. Immediate recall is also given.
TABLE VII.
Series. Im. Rec. Two Days. Im. Rec. Two Days.
N. O. N. O. V. M. V. M.
_M._
D^{1-4} 8 9 7 7 7 10 4 5
D^{5-8} 9 7 6 6 8 8 6 6
D^{9-12} 7 7 5 6 8 10 7 7
Av. 24 23 18 19 23 28 17 17
_Mo_.
D^{1-4} 6 6 2 1 8 10 0¹ 7¹
D^{5-8} 6 5 0¹ 3¹ 8 9 2 4
D^{9-12} 5 7 1¹ 6¹ 10 10 2 7
Av. 17 18 3 10 26 29 4 18
_S_.
D^{1-4} 8 9 2 3 9 10 6¹ 9¹
D^{5-8} 8 10 2 4 9 10 4¹ 9¹
D^{9-12} 8 10 2 5 8 10 3¹ 7¹
Av. 24 29 6 12 26 30 13 25
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