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Perhaps at this point evidence should be given indicating 

 cards that are easy and their relation to feeling. Specific evi- 

 dence, although indirect, was secured by having the cards deliv- 

 ered unstacked and again stacked backwards. Subjects J, B and 

 to some extent F found the same cards giving trouble in both 

 the usual and these unusual ways of distribution, but A, E, G, 

 H and I report that those cards, boxes and movements that 

 were well mechanized in the usual distribution gave more or 

 less trouble in the unstacked and the backward order. The 

 cards that were thus brought back to consciousness in an unfav- 

 orable light were, J of H, 8 of H, 6 of H, 4 of H, 2 of H, 7 of C, 6 

 of C, J of C, A of C, 9 of C, J of S, 7 of S, 6 of S, 5 of S, Q of D, 

 10 of D. These cards go to boxes that were among the first 

 to be mapped. E says, "I had to repeat the label of the box 

 receiving the card; due to interference of habit. Cards that 

 were easy before are difficult now and vice versa." Subject H 

 reports, " These cards gave no trouble in stacked order. They 

 had become so well mechanized that when conscious had to 

 take account of them they became difficult. I am not accus- 

 tomed to see where I throw, but to feel where I throw." G says, 

 " Interference as backwards was not felt especially as motor 

 interference, the sight of a card would call up its antecedent, 

 but not its subsequent. I broke down when this did not occur." 

 These some 16 or more cards caused the fewest " actual" and 

 "memory" hold-ups, and as I shall show later most of them 

 belong to or were delivered by pleasant movements. 



Third. Feeling tones were excited by movements by virtue of Hie 

 ease or difficulty with which they were executed. Here I found 

 three separable conditions (a) The feeling tone of an arm move- 

 ment depends upon its direction, (b) upon its length, (c) upon 

 its combination with other movements. There is some evi- 

 dence to the effect that the feeling tone of a movement depends 

 upon whether or not it is known, i.e., unknown movements are 

 unpleasant, known are pleasant. But my records fail to estab- 

 lish the validity of the view, besides a very little experimenta- 

 tion shows that the direction of a point may be known and the 

 actual movement remain unpleasant. 



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