Time—50 seconds.
Characters same as Table I.
| (1) (a rabbit)—Table | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | | | – | – | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | + | – | – | – | – | |||||||||
| R. | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | ||||||
| K. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |||||||||
| S. | | | | | | | | | | | – | | | | | | | | | | | |||||||||||||
| J. | | | – | – | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | – | – | – | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Ht. | | | – | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | – | – | – | – | ||||||
- (1) (a rabbit)—Table.
- (2) (horse)—Book.
- (3) (boy)—Dish.
- (4) (duck)—Iron.
- (5) (dog)—Paper.
| | | – | + | α | β | ||
| M. | { | 38 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 0 |
| 55.0% | 13.1% | 23.3% | 8.6% | |||
| R. | { | 1 | 20 | 55 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.3% | 26.3% | 72.4% | ||||
| K. | { | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100.0% | ||||||
| S. | { | 29 | 15 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| 50.8% | 26.3% | 5.3% | 17.6% | |||
| J. | { | 75 | 19 | 14 | 9 | 0 |
| 64.2% | 16.3% | 11.9% | 7.6% | |||
| Ht. | { | 17 | 7 | 30 | 33 | 0 |
| 19.5% | 8.1% | 34.5% | 37.9% | |||
| Totals | { | 225 | 70 | 118 | 58 | 0 |
| 47.8% | 14.8% | 25.0% | 12.4% |
Number of subjects, 6; number of sections, 5; number of experiments, 30; number of associations, 471.
GROUP V
The character of the starting-points determines which shall be followed in a simultaneous presentation; can the character of two immediately successive starting-points be so varied as to overcome the factor of temporal difference? The few experiments in this group show an attempt to shift and measure this influence, selecting as variants words of general and specific character, the first being a term of everyday experience with the subjects, of wide connotation, and therefore presumably rich in associations, and the second, which had the advantage of position, one of more limited and specific connotation, thus in a measure making it possible to test the stability of the second in establishing itself as a word-suggester. For the words "Gymnasium—Stamens" the second still strongly predominates. There is a slight increase in the amount of fusion (24.5% in all), the explanation of which would probably lie in the fact that the first is more assertive than before and offers more elements common to the two. There was one case of total fusion, one case where fusion started before the sixth word and continued, no cases of alternating fusion, four cases of partial fusion, five cases where the second was followed throughout, no case where the first was followed throughout, five cases of alternation between the first and the second. In 75.5%, the influence was exerted without fusion. Eight of the nine subjects favor the specific term.
TABLE V. GENERAL AND FAMILIAR WORD—SPECIFIC WORD SPOKEN
Time—50 seconds.
Characters—same as Table I.