322 

 Percentage of answers. 



Correct 



Incorrect No answer 



of correct answers decreases and the iinmher of iiiconect ones 

 increases. The lessening of the fixation of associations must be 

 considered as an indication of the very defective conception in acute 

 confusion, in which it is often a striking symptom so that, no matter 

 what troul)le the patient takes, it is not possil)le to digest, to assi- 

 milate the external impressions. 



The increasing nunil)er of incorrect answers indicates a loosening 

 of the associations which must be considered as a rudimentary foiin 

 of a lack of the connection between the conceptions in the same 

 way as this makes its appearance in acute confusion. This falling 

 out of the associative connection is so essential in this disease that 

 this has been named after it. 



In our subjects the difficidty of fixation of impressions causes 

 disturbances of menuny, as are found in acute confusion of a very 

 higii degree, and which con-espond to the depression of consciousness. 



Reduciny specialised conceptions to general ones. 

 Percentage of answers. 



While the associations by contiguity and by simultaneousness 

 were ex-amined more especially in the preceding test, the association 

 by agreeinent plays the greatest role in this the last research, i.e. the 

 reduction of a special to a general conception. 



