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Number 



Percentage of 

 correct answers. 



eonscioiisiiesH of I lie hjsleiit's and the psyoliical di.sdirbance.s of the 

 psvohaslhenics caused iheiu no difliculty in concentrating their 

 atlentiveness for a short time oh work which interests them. 



Underlining tests. 



The great differences in uttentiveness is apparent from the number 

 of normal and reversed imderlinings as well as from the number 

 of mistakes. The antonuitic after-aclion, the perseverance, is inci-eased 

 strongly simultaneously to the diminution of the attentix eness. This 

 appears out of the stronger intluence of the normal underlining on 

 the quantity as well as on the quality of the reversed during a 

 depression of the attentiveness. Perseverance, continuing to cling to 

 observations, conceptions or actions is a phenomenon that frequently 

 occurs in dreams and in acute confusion. 



It is also clear that the neurotics now, as o[)posed lo the esthesio- 

 metric test, achieve considerably less than the normals, probably on 

 account of the circuuistance that Iheir attentiveness had now to be 

 settled on a work for a longer time. 



Test until the meiliod. 



Parallel to the descent of the grade of consciousness the number 



