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to the experimental situation is two or three sessions. For 

 stimulus words, were taken whatever material was available 

 from the rejected words of various kinds, and as nearly as pos- 

 sible the scheme of parallelism and alternation was carried out. No 

 three syllable nouns were included in these practise words. Rej ec- 

 tions had not been quite completed on them at the time experiment 

 II began, inasmuch as the three syllable nouns formed the last 

 material for experiment I. The actual three days 7 practise words, 

 totalling 540 nouns and adjectives, were distributed as follows: 



It was also intended that the results for the practise period and 

 the regular ten days' work should be compared to see directly 

 the effect of excluding unsuitable words of different kinds. 



Eight subjects were used in this experiment, four of whom 

 had acted as subjects in the experiment on verbs, subjects V, VI, 

 VII, VIII and four who were entirely new to the whole procedure. 

 All eight subjects took the practise work, for there was no reason 

 for thinking necessarily that the first four might be adapted to 

 adjective and noun associations merely because they had been 

 working on verb associations. Of course practically all emo- 

 tional disturbance in the first four subjects had already been 

 eliminated. At the beginning of the regular ten days' work it 

 may be said that all subjects had lost as much of any emotional 

 disturbance as they would ever lose, and for all except one subject 

 perhaps we would say that any remaining emotional upset was 

 practically nil. This one exception, subject XII, was of a natu- 

 rally shy disposition. Subjects VII, VI, VIII, IX, X and XII 

 were all university men, the first of these being a Ph.D., the 

 second a graduate student, the next two sophomores and the 

 last three freshmen. Subject XI was a junior at a woman's 

 college. In all there were seven men and one woman. It had 

 been hoped to have an equal number of men and women but the 

 difficulty of getting women subjects prevented this. 



