| | | chimney | lamp. |
| | | white | lamp chimney. |
| | | yellow | white chimney. |
| | | flame | yellow. |
| | | nickel | lamp plus the other words. |
| – | scales | justice. |
| – | purple robe | justice. |
As the tables indicate, there was frequently a strong tendency here for the abstract terms to fuse. As H. noticed, "It does not tend to call up associations of its own stripe, but in some way becomes concrete."
TABLE VI. TWO WORDS: CONCRETE—ABSTRACT SPOKEN
Time—15 seconds.
Characters—same as Table I.
| (I) Desert—Hate | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. | | | | | | | + | + | + | |||
| M. | | | | | | | | | – | – | |||
| F. | + | + | + | ||||||
| H. | | | – | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Ro. | | | | | – | – | | | | | | | | | |
| Bl. | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | ||
| By. | | | | | | | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| Bs. | – | | | | | | | | | | | |||
| Br. | | | | | | | + | + | ||||
- (1) Desert—Hate.
- (2) Lamp—Justice.
- (3) Pen—Fatigue,
- (4) Gate—Fear.
TABLE VI—continued
| | | – | + | α | β | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. | { | 10 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 55.5% | 11.2% | 33.3% | ||||
| M. | { | 7 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 28.0% | 32.0% | 40.0% | ||||
| F. | { | 3 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 18.7% | 50.1% | 31.2% | ||||
| H. | { | 17 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 50.0% | 47.1% | 2.9% | ||||
| Ro. | { | 15 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 57.7% | 42.3% | |||||
| Bl. | { | 4 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 0 |
| 14.2% | 53.5% | 25.1% | 7.2% | |||
| By. | { | 4 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| 11.8% | 61.8% | 23.5% | 2.9% | |||
| Bs. | { | 5 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 2 |
| 21.8% | 4.3% | 65.2% | 8.7% | |||
| Br. | { | 11 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 52.3% | 38.1% | 9.6% | ||||
| Totals | { | 76 | 90 | 54 | 2 | 3 |
| 33.8% | 40.0% | 24.0% | .8% | 1.4% |
Number of subjects, 9; number of sections, 4; number of experiments, 34; number of associations, 225.