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PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL. 



ASSOCIATION-REACTION TIME. 



This is the most highly educated group of subjects that Wells has 

 used in the association experiment. As a group, the reaction times are 

 a little longer than those of less-educated subjects Wells has seen, the 

 slower formulation of the response being very probably due to the 

 more complex mental processes the stimulus word is likely to arouse in 

 educated subjects. In spite of the fact that the differences between 

 the averages are small, the order of quickness in which these averages 

 place the subjects is fairly constantly maintained, Subjects X and III 

 being the fastest. Then follow in order Subjects VI, VII, II, and IX. 

 The place of Subject IX is doubtless accounted for by the fact that not 

 English but German is his native language. 



TABLE 13. Association-reaction times. 

 [Values given in hundredths of a second.] 



1 Values for Series A obtained before alcohol was given, and therefore not 



included in averages. 



The complete table of association-reaction times is given in table 13. 

 In the column at the extreme left is given the kind of experiment and 

 the designation of the several subjects. The columns headed Series A, 

 Series B, etc., contain the average results for the 6 experimental periods 



