376 MILDRED WEST LORING 



As the words at this time were not yet completely catalogued, the 

 several groups of words were given in serial order, the adjective- 

 noun group of subjects going through the whole series of adjec- 

 tives, in the successive order of one, two, and three syllables, and 

 on their completion going through the whole series of nouns in 

 the same way. The verb group likewise first did the transitive 

 verbs and then the intransitive verbs. As noted above, the 

 various classes of stimulus words were in lists of 40 each in this 

 preliminary work, and four lists were given per hour on a twelve 

 minute schedule that is, twelve minutes were allowed to a list, 

 any tune left over being given up to a rest period, during which 

 the subject was allowed to do anything he pleased, converse with 

 the experimenter, walk around or sit quietly. It was usually 

 spent in irrelevant conversation. The remainder of the hour was 

 allowed for preparation of material, breakdown of apparatus, and 

 other details. Each day 160 words were given. In this experi- 

 ment all subjects worked one hour per day for three days each 

 week, as far as possible at the same hour of the day. The one 

 exception was subject I who reported only twice a week. He fell 

 far behind the others of his group, and for this reason subject IV 

 was secured to supplement his work. It will be observed there- 

 fore that the results of these two are not capable of intra-com- 

 parison to the extent of the others; subject I finished all adjectives, 

 part of the one syllable nouns, and all the two syllable nouns; 

 subject IV did part of the one syllable nouns, and all the two and 

 three syllable nouns. 



Subjects were instructed as to the required type of response 

 word, and told to speak the first word occurring to them that fitted 

 this requirement as quickly as possible, even though the response 

 word was not exactly precise. Subjects were frequently reminded 



