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Results for experiment II 



Table 7. This is similar to table 1, experiment I. It shows 

 the number of cases, averages, and mean variations for one, 

 two, and three syllable selected adjectives and nouns for the 

 total regular ten days' work. The results are consistent through- 

 out for each observer in corroborating the conclusion in 

 experiment I that the noun-adjective reaction is longer than 

 the adjective-noun reaction. These results also substantiate 

 the earlier conclusion that the reaction time increases directly 

 with the number of syllables in the stimulus word for these two 

 types of associations. 



TABLE 7 

 Reaction times for selected adjectives and nouns, regular ten days' work (totals) 



Table 8. This table shows the reaction times for the regular 

 ten days, giving the numbers of cases, average reaction times, and 

 mean variations for each of the ten days separately. The con- 

 clusions drawn from the previous table, where, the same reaction 

 times of each class were treated en masse for the ten days, are 

 on the whole borne out here. An examination into the relative 

 length of the average reaction time for adjective and noun stim- 

 ulus words for each subject for each of the ten days shows the 

 following number of cases where the noun stimulus word gives 

 a longer average reaction time than the adjective stimulus 

 word. Of course, only the average reaction times for the same 



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