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|)lienomeiion makes its appearance in niiicii stronger measure in 

 acnte confnsion, in which often nothing is i-emembered. Freshly 

 received impressions were immeciialely destroyed by subsequent 

 psychical contents. 



There is another phenomenon woilh mentioning. The niunber of 

 incorrect answers increases in accordance to tlie lowering of the 

 grade of consciousness. This has also been proved by the preceding 

 tests. The neurotics however form an exception to this rule. Of all 

 the people examined they give the smallest number of incorrect 

 answ^ers. This phenomenon is explained by the characteristics of the 

 psychasthenics, who are withheld from giving an answer by all 

 sorts of scruples unless they are absolutely certain. The normals on 

 the other hand will guess at a number if they have remembered 

 one figure only. In tracing all the answers separately this becomes clear. 



The stronger inclination of the psychasthenics to keep silence 

 rather than give an incorrect answer also becomes clearly apparent 

 if we compare the percentage of incoi-rect and nil-answei's of the 

 total number of answers which were not correct. 

 Answers that were not correct. 



The number of incorrect answers is smaller in the dements than 

 in the melancholies. 



Recoqnitioii of nniiibers, with and loithout subsequent work. 



