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... increases steadily with age . Measurements of tapping - time on one hundred New Haven school child- ren of each age from six to seven- LO FATIGUE teen are shown in Fig . 8. The fig- BOYS AND GIRLS BOYS GIALD 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 FIG . 9 ...
... increases steadily with age . Measurements of tapping - time on one hundred New Haven school child- ren of each age from six to seven- LO FATIGUE teen are shown in Fig . 8. The fig- BOYS AND GIRLS BOYS GIALD 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 FIG . 9 ...
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... increases . The time of association of ideas , which is what is usually meant by " association - time , " is best measured by calling out words or showing pictures to some one who is to tell what he associates to each . For exam- ple ...
... increases . The time of association of ideas , which is what is usually meant by " association - time , " is best measured by calling out words or showing pictures to some one who is to tell what he associates to each . For exam- ple ...
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... increased by practice in learning a language has been made the subject of experiment . Ten boys were taken from each class of a high school and were asked to read rapidly the first hundred words of a Latin book . The number of seconds ...
... increased by practice in learning a language has been made the subject of experiment . Ten boys were taken from each class of a high school and were asked to read rapidly the first hundred words of a Latin book . The number of seconds ...
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... increased by practice ? problem has been answered in respect to the hand . The arrangement for measuring steadiness is made very simple , involving no capsules or drums . It con- sists of a flat block of hard rubber supported vertically ...
... increased by practice ? problem has been answered in respect to the hand . The arrangement for measuring steadiness is made very simple , involving no capsules or drums . It con- sists of a flat block of hard rubber supported vertically ...
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... increases the proportion of the error , however , is not increased or even the same , but is decreased ; 20 % is a much larger part of 200 % than 46 % of 1600 % . A method of making similar experiments with the arm is to lift ...
... increases the proportion of the error , however , is not increased or even the same , but is decreased ; 20 % is a much larger part of 200 % than 46 % of 1600 % . A method of making similar experiments with the arm is to lift ...
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