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The trial and success method was slow and tedious indeed. 

 In one case the series passed in review 897 times without the 

 subject detecting any plan in the suit or in the numerical order. 

 The kinaesthesis of the movements were largely relied upon and 

 were sometimes rehearsed, mimetic fashion, in writing the series. 



Summary for stacked order, a. Three methods were em- 

 ployed which appear to turn on the recognition and use of the 

 order of the suit. If the suit order was recognized while the 

 distributing process was well within the conscious stages, the 

 subjects were likely to solve the order by the rational method. 

 This was done by subjects A, G, I of plan I and D of plan II. 

 If the subject depended on the sequence of movement and more 

 or less on the visual imagery of the boxes, for writing the order, 

 it is clear that the order would grow only with the increase of 

 knowledge of sequence of movements. Although such knowl- 

 edge was formed in the initial periods, it progressed compara- 

 tively slowly, and soon passed to the automatic or functional 

 form. So that if the order corresponding to the movements 

 was not written while the latter was on the conscious plane, it 

 had to be solved by the trial and error method. This explana- 

 tion applies particularly to F and largely to B, C and J. These 

 latter did not see the relation between suit and order until the 

 entire series was nearly completed by the trial and error method. 

 In the case of C and B the rational method was suggested at 

 the last moment by the results of trial and error. K, who used 

 no other principle but trial and error, never succeeded in writing 

 out the order. H learned the order of the suit at the eighteenth 

 period, but never succeeded in writing out the entire series. 

 Again if the subject forms habits, associations, synthesis of 

 movements with comparative rapidity, then the sectional method 

 is likely to be employed. This was E's type of learning. He 

 often remarked, and his work showed, that he formed habits 

 rapidly. His complete suppression of Spades and attempt to 

 learn the order in terms of boxes is a case in point. 



6. There exists a direct correlation between the manner and 

 rapidity of learning the stacked order and the comparatively 

 short interval of attaining high rates of speed. Subjects using 



