INTERRELATION BETWEEN HABIT FORMATION AND 



FEELING QUALITIES OF VOLUNTARY 



MOVEMENTS 1 



LINUS WARD KLINE 



Skidmore College 



CONTENTS PAGES 



Introduction 256 



Problem stated 259 



Methods and apparatus 259 



1. Use of objective and introspective methods as involved in the acquisi- 



tion of motor skill 259 



2. Distribution case and playing 'cards 260 



3. Artificial conditions for creating feeling 261 



Plans and procedure 262 



1. Plan I involves normal, pleasant and unpleasant working conditions. 262 



2. Plan II involves normal and pleasant conditions 263 



3. Modes of presenting the stimulus 263 



4. Five phases of the trial 263 



Classification of results 266 



A. General results 266 



1. The acquisition of skill as a conscious process, and the learning 



curve 266 



2. Introspective reports 266 



3. Rate of distribution and knowledge of box location 266 



4. Growth of synthetic processes with increase of speed 266 



5. Inhibitions and errors, and their correlations with feeling tone 



and conditions of work 266 



1 The many obligations incurred during the course of this investigation can- 

 not be adequately indicated here. I can but suggest the sources of my indebt- 

 edness. 



To Harvard University I am grateful for the privileges and benefits of a 

 Research Fellowship in Psychology for the scholastic year of 1912-1913, and to 

 the late Prof. Hugo Munsterberg for his counsel and encouragement throughout 

 the work. My hearty thanks are hereby expressed to Prof. Herbert S. Lang- 

 feld for supervising the preparation of the apparatus and for many painstaking 

 criticisms and helpful suggestions. For the patient service of those who acted as 

 subjects throughout the year under tedious and exacting conditions, I am deeply 

 indebted. All credit is due my wife for the arrangement of the material and for 

 the preparation of tables. It is also a pleasure to acknowledge the valuable 

 suggestions given by Prof. Knight Dunlap during the revision of the original 

 manuscript. 



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