TABLE II.—continued
| | | – | + | α | β | ||
| M. | { | 32 | 66 | 26 | 0 | 13 |
| 23.4% | 48.2% | 18.9% | 9.5% | |||
| F. | { | 32 | 67 | 13 | 5 | 1 |
| 27.2% | 56.7% | 11.0% | 4.3% | .8% | ||
| H. | { | 59 | 79 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 41.3% | 55.2% | 3.5% | ||||
| Ro. | { | 44 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34.1% | 65.9% | |||||
| J. | { | 21 | 121 | 8 | 5 | 0 |
| 13.5% | 78. % | 5.3% | 3.2% | |||
| Bl. | { | 22 | 83 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| 19.7% | 74.1% | 5.4% | .8% | |||
| By. | { | 16 | 97 | 18 | 14 | 23 |
| 9.5% | 57.8% | 10.7% | 8.3% | 13.7% | ||
| Bs. | { | 26 | 64 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 25.8% | 63.5% | 2.9% | 6.9% | .9% | ||
| Bur. | { | 16 | 59 | 8 | 0 | 10 |
| 17.2% | 63.4% | 8.6% | 0 | 10.8% | ||
| Total | { | 268 | 721 | 87 | 31 | 49 |
| 23.2% | 62.3% | 7.6% | 2.6% | 4.3% |
Number of subjects, 9; number of sections, 19; number of experiments, 80; number of associations, 1156.
GROUP III
For two syllables and like words the second strongly predominates in awakening associations; will the same be true when two simple outline pictures are shown in the same order? The following results show in attestation of the above conclusion percentages remarkably similar to those of the words. There are 23.7% for the first and 61% for the second; 84.7% of the associations show no sign of fusion and only 15.3% for fusion and the different forms of partial fusion, the second still holding the ascendency. When the two pictures did fuse, R. tells us, "All the associations were more elaborate pictures than when mere words were given."
A comparative study, inadequate though it is, offers a partial parallelism between the predominating memory type and stimulation. The subjects who are preëminently of the visual, K., visual motor, M., H., V., and visual lingual motor, Ht., find the pictures more suggestive than the syllables, while those of the pure motor, F. and By., reverse the order and find that the syllables offer more numerous and "more vivid" (F.) associations.
Common experience, however, immediately shows the limitations of reaching conclusions, when considering prolificacy as criteria of suggestiveness, inasmuch as starting-points which are abundantly rich in associations tend to produce so many points of departure that they tend to inhibit one another. Again there is to be considered the kind of associations, those of the syllables being of a very elementary character and in serial form.
A few experiments were given in which colored slips of paper were used as starting-points. These proved very suggestive for the subjects. Also a few tones were given, but these were soon discontinued, as other tones, which could not be recorded, were frequently suggested. The sentence which forms a very satisfactory starting-point where one is used could not be used to an advantage where several were given. As we are here interested in the mutual influence of the starting-points, our remaining study will be confined to a quantitative and qualitative variation of the forms used in the previous groups.