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aspect inhibition became a common event and more and more 

 localized with respect to certain movements. Even in the vague 

 motor attitude of the synthetic stage of movements the inhibi- 

 tions of a localized form began to appear and continued through- 

 out the practice even in the automatic movements, where they 

 occurred with greater impact if with less frequency. 



But the strictly motor inhibitions were preceded and accom- 

 panied by a perceptual or a cognitive kind, so-called, growing 

 out of the task of " establishing card." The nature of these in- 

 hibitions is described in some detail in the discussion submitted 

 above under the headings, " Learning the plan of distribution" 

 and "The learning curves" and finally in "Feeling tone excited 

 by the distributing process." Interest here is not in the inhibi- 

 tions involved within the plan itself, but in their diffusive effect 



TABLE 



on the movements. A numerical comparison was made between 

 the unpleasant ( ) reports of the 26 movements "unaccompan- 

 ied" by substitution of card and those "accompanied," showing 

 a decided effect of the latter process on the unpleasant judgments. 

 The pleasant (+) reports show a similar effect as might be ex- 

 pected, i.e., movements unaccompanied by substitution of card 

 show a higher percentage of (+) reports. Percentages of both 

 kinds of reports are shown in the accompanying table 6, abridged 

 from table 3, plans I and II. 



The plan or "aufgabe" 7 through practice becomes associated 

 with the kinaesthetic processes of execution and facilitates or 



7 The description here of the function of the ' aufgabe' apparently coincides 

 with that given by Professor Washburn in her paper on "The Aufgabe and In- 

 tellectual Inefficiency," an abstract of which has just come to hand. Proc. 

 Amer. Psych. Assoc., December, 1913; Psy. Bui., vol. xi, pp. 41, 42, 1914. 



