The other conditions were exactly as in the last experiment.
A table for the individual subjects, indicating not only the omitted but also the displaced and imperfect objects would have, for instance, the following character: C indicates that the effort was made to associate by Contiguity, S by Similarity.
SPOKEN NOUNS, ALTERNATED WITH PRINTED NONSENSE SYLLABLES
| Nouns Omitted | Syll. Omitted | Displaced | Imperfect | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | S | C | S | C | S | C | S | |
| Turley | 13 | 16 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 10 |
| Emerson | 4 | 5 | 26 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 13 |
| Miss Kent | 5 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 18 | 5 | 9 | 4 |
| Flexner | 4 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 16 |
| Toll | 8 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 3 |
| Total | 34 | 42 | 80 | 49 | 49 | 37 | 35 | 46 |
If we consider total results only, and among them only the omitted elements, we come to the following percentages. They give the percentage of the errors of omissions among the elements recalled.
| 1. | Letters and numbers alternated | C | 26. | S | 10.8 |
| 2. | Letters, alternatingly disaligned | C | 21.2 | S | 15. |
| 3. | Letters irregularly disaligned | C | 23.8 | S | 22.4 |
| 4. | Numbers irregularly disaligned | C | 7. | S | 20. |
| 5. | Nonsense Syllables, irregularly marked | C | 27.5 | S | 27.5 |
| 6. | Nouns and Nonsense Syllables alternated, spoken | C | 35. | S | 37.2 |
| 7. | Nouns and Nonsense Syllables alternated, nouns spoken, syllables printed | C | 28.5 | S | 22.7 |
In the second group, experiments 8 to 11, not the errors of omission, but, as explained above, the different kinds of reproduced elements, had to be analyzed with special reference to the question whether a sequence linked two contiguous or two similar objects. In the following table the total number of recalled sequences is taken as basis and the different kinds of sequences are given in percentages of it. The elements themselves are described above. B means a break, that is, a sequence without similarity or contiguity.
| 8. | Dissimilar elements, similarly presented | S | 45 | C | 28 | B | 28 |
| 9. | Dissimilar elements, different kind in each series | S | 53 | C | 25 | B | 21 |
| 10. | Similar elements, dissimilarly presented | S | 54 | C | 20 | B | 26 |
| 11. | Dissimilar elements, dissimilarly presented | S (Meaning) | 27 | C | 7 | B | 8 |
| S (Presentation) | 13. |
The results by the first method of measurement may be summarized as follows, though the first and third conclusions are weakened by disagreement among the individual subjects.