48 RUTLEDGE T. WILTBANK 



TABLE 42 



The Average Total Number of Errors per Rat Made in a Maze Partially 



Learned before the Complete Learning of a Second Maze and Completely 



Learned after the Learning of the Second Maze; and the Percentages 



OF Transfer of Training 



Maze D Maze E 



Errors Percentages of Transfer Errors Percentages of Transfer 



(Two Trials in Partial Learning) 

 33.11 29.24 5.81 81.71 



(Four Trials in Partial Learning) 



37.62 12.89 24.81 —22.18 

 (Eight Trials in Partial Learning) 



80.27 —72.14 29.81 6.18 



(Sixteen Trials in Partial Learning) 

 80.61 —72.88 36.00 —12.92 



(Control-groups: Group 4 for D, Group 5 for E) 



46.63 31.88 



TABLE 43 



The Average Total Time per Rat Made in a Maze Partially Learned before 

 the Complete Learning of a Second Maze and Completely Learned 

 after the Learning of the Second Maze; and the Per- 

 centages OF Transfer of Training 



Maze D Maze E 



Time Percentages of Transfer Time Percentages of Transfer 



(Two Trials in Partial Learning) 

 22.91 44.24 32.52 — 5.86 



(Four Trials in Partial Learning 

 19.55 50.55 51.32 —67.06 



(Eight Trials in Partial Learning) 

 30.36 19.04 56.16 —82.81 



(Sixteen Trials in Partial Learning) 

 20.08 46.46 30.49 .75 



(Control-groups: Group 4 for D, Group 5 for E) 

 37.50 30.72 



and after the learning of E w^ere compared v^ith the number 

 made by the control-group for D, which v^as group 4; 

 and the same method v^as followed with respect to errors 

 and time. 



We cannot make, from the point of view of time, as 

 broad a statement concerning the beneficial effect upon a 

 maze-learning of interrupting it in order to learn another 

 maze as was made concerning the same matter from the 

 point of view of trials. The transfer in the E maze, with 



