310 CARL W. BOCK 



262* 



103 59 + 71 



50 + 22 + 22 47 +12 12 + 59 



12 + 47 



Resume of record 7, observer T 



8,* 14* 14* 38* 16* 174 89* 



8+14+16 10 X 16 + 14 



94* 103* 



10 X 8 + 14 6 X 16 + 12 



All observers whose records have been cited above, observed 

 while they were beating a "feeling" that they should or could cease 

 beating at certain times, for some reason however not doing so. 

 Observers were instructed to accent the beats at which the above 

 feelings were perceived by tapping a little harder. These accents 

 would accordingly divide the whole group into a number of suc- 

 cessive groups whose limits were conditioned by, or accompanied 

 by, the said mental states or " feelings." It was desired to as- 

 certain whether or not these mental states had any behavioral 

 correlates or whether the instructions to accent would as it were 

 "salt out" groups that were known to be, or which could be shown 

 to be, functional entities in the sense in which this term is used 

 in the present study. In oase it happened that the accents, thus 

 determined, coincided with or conditioned groups that were 

 entities, it would mean that the above "feelings of being able 

 to stop" had objective correlates, and that they existed because 

 the organism in question at other times did actually stop beating 

 when the last element of this or that group had been made. 



As will be seen from the examples to be cited, the facts agree 

 with expectations, but certain factors make it impossible gen- 

 erally to make use of this technique for the purpose of salting 

 out groups. The instructions to accent a beat or beats, when 

 the said mental states obtained, themselves act as a stimulus 

 for having these same mental states at times where they would 

 not have been had, had no instructions been given. The result 

 is that, while at first a certain modicum of success will attend 



