TABLE 33
THE ROLE OF SIGHT, TOUCH, AND SMELL IN LABYRINTH EXPERIMENTS
No. 210 No. 215
TEST CONDITION ERRORS CONDITION ERRORS
I. 1 No shock 9 I. No shock 2
II. 2 Shock 5 II. Shock 3 3 Shock 4 Shock 1 4 Shock 2 Shock 0 5 Shock 3 Shock 0 6 Shock 0 Shock 0 7 Shock 0 Shock 0 8 Shock 0 Shock 0
9 Shock 0 III. Labyrinth 0 moved
10 Shock 0 IV. Paper on floor 4
III. 11 Labyrinth 0 No paper (shock) 0
moved
IV. 12 Paper on 0 0
floor
13 No paper 0 No paper 0
(shock)
14 Paper 1 Paper 1
15 No paper 0 No paper 0
16 Paper 7 Paper 4
17 No paper 0 No paper 0
18 Paper 0 Paper 0
19 No paper 0 No paper 0
20 Paper 4 Paper 0
21 No paper 0 No paper 0
22 Paper 2 V. Darkness 0
23 No paper 2 VI. Labyrinth 2
24 Paper 1 washed 0
25 No paper 0 VII. Darkness 2
26 Paper 0
27 No paper 0
28 Paper 0
29 No paper 0
V. 30 Darkness 0
VI. 31 Labyrinth 2
washed
32 0
VII. 33 Darkness 0
The average results for the twelve individuals (six of each sex) which were subjected to the tests, I have arranged in Table 34. The Roman numerals at the top of the table designate the seven groups of tests, and the figures under each, the numerical results of the tests. I may explain and comment upon the averages of the several columns of this table in turn.
Column I gives the number of errors made in the preliminary test.
Curiously enough, the males made many more errors than the females.
For the second group of tests (II) two results have been tabulated: the number of the first correct test, and the total number of tests before the path was followed correctly five times in succession. The first correct trip came usually after not more than five or six tests, but five successive correct trips demanded on the average at least fourteen training tests.
Destruction of the floor path by movement of the labyrinth to one side, without changing its relations to the points of the compass, disturbed the mice very little. Only four of the twelve individuals made any mistakes as a result of the change in the tactual conditions, and the average error as it appears in Column III is only .3.