Archives of Psychology Volume 24 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...account in the curve, which begins on the practise level of the previous day, no interference effect being retained. The first arrangement without interference attains as low a point in the curve as is attained on that day and with the women a little lower. Towards the last the best absolute time is made in the first four without interference, but this is very small and with some subjects nothing at all. It may be because of being perfectly fresh at the experiment. The curves show that the improvement is very rapid after the changes and that the same efficiency is reached as before. Although the women's practise curve is a little better than that of the men, their curve in Group III. is not quite so good, which is most plainly shown in the last few days by the drop in the men's curve. The men's curve surpasses their practise curve quite frequently but the women's does not, except at first. For the first three days the men rise higher after the change than the women, for the last three days they are about the same. In spite of this higher rise of the first three days and the equivalent rise of the last three, the men attain a greater efficiency than the women, shown by the fact that their curve comes lower than the women for the last sortings of each section. The four women in the lower section of Plate II. do not show the changes in arrangement so clearly. There were many cases where the last sorting of a section took longer than the first. Among the men there were very few cases where the second sorting of an arrangement took as long as the first; among the women there were many where it took longer. During many of the sections there is negative improvement among the women; never among the men. Of course the women do not rise so high for the first sorting ...