mic
attitude of humiliation with half-closed eyes, bowed head, and
uplifted palms, while at the same time I was aware of myself as of a
mental puppet, in that position. This same word will serve to
illustrate the other groups also. It so happened in connection with
"abasement" that the word "David" or "King David" occurred to me on
one occasion in each of three out of the four trials; also that an
accidental misreading, or perhaps the merely punning association of
the words "a basement," brought up on all four occasions the image
of the foundations of a house that the builders had begun upon.

So much for the character of the association; next as to that of the
words. I found, after the experiments were over, that the words were
divisible into three distinct groups. The first contained "abbey,"
"aborigines," "abyss," and others that admitted of being presented
under some mental image. The second group contained "abasement,"
"abhorrence," "ablution," etc., which admitted excellently of
histrionic representation. The third group contained the more
abstract words, such as "afternoon," "ability," "abnormal," which
were variously and imperfectly dealt with by my mind. I give the
results in the upper part of Table III., and, in order to save
trouble, I have reduced them to percentages in the lower lines of
the Table.

TABLE III.
COMPARISON BETWEEN THE QUALITY OF THE WORDS AND THAT OF
THE IDEAS IN IMMEDIATE ASSOCIATION WITH THEM.
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Number | | | | | |
of words | | Sense |Histrionic| Purely Verbal | |
in each | |Imagery. | | Names | Phrases | Total|
series. | | | | of | and | |
| | | |Persons.|Quotations.| |
| |---------+----------+--------+-----------+------+
26 |"Abbey" series| 46 | 12 | 32 | 17 | 107 |
20 |"Abasement" " | 25 | 26 | 11 | 17 | 79 |
29 |"Afternoon" " | 23 | 27 | 16 | 38 | 104 |
75 | | | | | | 290 |
| |---------+----------+--------+-----------+------+
|"Abbey" series| 43 | 11 | 30 | 16 |