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TABLE 39 



The Percentages of Transfer of Training as Measured by the Savings 

 IN Surplus Time by Groups Learning the D Maze after the 

 Partial Learning of the E Maze 



After 2 trials on E 81 After 8 trials on E 86 



After 4 trials on E 85 After 16 trials on E 88 



After learning E 93 



TABLE 40 



The Percentages of Transfer of Training as Measured by the Savings 



IN Surplus Time by Groups Learning the E Maze after 



THE Partial Learning of the D Maze 



After 2 trials on D 76 After 8 trials on D 80 . 7 



After 4 trials on D 80 . 6 After 16 trials on D 92 



After learning D 96 



It is not surprising that the transfer in time should be 

 positive throughout the entire series of transfers, for the 

 first two trials are almost w^ithout exception the greatest 

 time-consumers. The animals during these trials, and 

 especially during the first, proceed very slowly and with 

 every sign of extreme timidity. It rarely takes more than 

 one or two successful passages of the maze for the animals' 

 behavior in this respect to radically change, so that they 

 proceed to their task with much greater speed. It is prob- 

 ably this increase in speed which, continuing through the 

 four-trial partial learning and the eight-trial, secures slight 

 increases in transfer of training. 



