HABIT FORMATION AND FEELING QUALITIES 267 



52 movements. Interest here is in the possible correlation be- 

 tween the reported feeling qualities and the direction of the move- 

 ments together with the ' memory" hold-ups and hold-ups oc- 

 curring in actual distribution, errors and dropped cards. 



The " memory" reports of the affective tone of the movements 

 were taken a week before getting the report of feelings as they 

 occurred with movements in "a series" and in " isolation," i.e., 

 as an individual movement. These latter reports, described 

 later, were continued from eight to nine weeks. The same va- 

 lidity is attached to these 'reports' of feelings as facts, that is 

 ordinarily given to one's report of a headache or to the sting of a 

 corn, no more nor less. 



In making the " memory report" of feelings the subject sat at 

 a table and with a chart of the movements before him indicated 

 their feeling qualities in terms of pleasant ( +), unpleasant ( ), 

 neutral (0), tense (t) and relaxed (r) : the instances of relaxed feel- 

 ings were so few that they are not reported in the tables. Only 

 seven subjects of plan I knew the movements well enough at 

 the twelfth hour of practice to make reliable reports. Subjects 

 B and H were unable to make any from memory. 



The reports of the feeling quality of a movement as it was being 

 executed " perceptual report" as contrasted to "memory report" 

 were of two kinds : 



1. The subject was required to report on the feeling quality of 

 a movement, using the terms required in the "memory report" 

 (+), ( ), etc., regarded in its relations to the system or set of 

 movements in which it occurred in the distribution, i.e., in rela- 

 tion to the movements that preceded and immediately followed 

 it. 



2. To report on its feeling quality regarded as an individual 

 movement made between two boxes of the case and as if it were 

 the only movement made. The former reports are tabulated 

 under the heading "A series" and the latter under that of "iso- 

 lation." (see table 3). The "serial" report of the entire 52 

 movements was made first, and after a few minutes pause, the 

 "isolated" were taken. In both I called the names of the cards 

 in the stacked order and the subject standing before the case in 



