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skill and feeling, it becomes doubly important to describe the 

 factors involved and to indicate their interdependence as far 

 as possible. In the main, the case distribution, viewed on the 

 conscious plane, reveals six phases: (1) learning the plan of the 

 work; (2) forming connections between a card and its box-label, 

 i.e. "establishing card;" (3) learning the location of the boxes, 

 a study in place memory; (4) learning the sequence of the stacked 

 cards; (5) forming a synthesis between the order of the cards 

 and the sequence of movements; and (6) the synthesis becomes 

 automatic. 



1 . Learning the plan of the work. Plan 1 required that spades 

 be thrown to diamonds, diamonds to clubs, clubs to clubs and 

 finally hearts to hearts 7 boxes; in terms of boxes it meant diamond, 

 club, club, heart, repeated 13 times in every distribution of the 

 pack. As might be anticipated, the plan was learned by several 

 forms of repetition, with speech-motor predominating. ID1P. 4 

 "Directions repeated by incipient vocalization every time a new 

 card was held for delivery." 



The first object of the repetition was merely to learn the plan, 

 requiring with but few exceptions not more than three periods, 

 and in some only two. The two cards, spades and diamonds, 

 plan I and clubs and hearts in plan II, involving mental substi- 

 tution, required the bulk of the repetition. The repetition 

 continued two to four periods after the plan had been learned; 

 this excess in the earlier periods occurred at hesitation points, 

 of when confirmation was desired, or as a precaution against 

 error and confusion, or to clarify the process, or to prevent 

 mind-wandering, or to control movement; and finally it was 

 resorted to as an inhibiting measure against the effects of the 

 unpleasant stimulus. 



7D3P. " Clubs to clubs and hearts to hearts is becoming automatic, 

 but it is some effort to translate spades to diamonds and less effort to 

 change diamonds to clubs." 40D11P. "I found myself repeating the 

 plan, it increases certainty of movement. If I trust to movement 



4 1P1D is an abbreviation for first period, first distribution; 2P2D an abbre- 

 viation for second period, second distribution, etc. 



