A Study of Association in Insanity by Grace Helen Kent
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reaction _bath--ink_ is 0.
Logically the combination _health--wealth_ may be placed in any one of four classes, as follows: / intrinsic / causal dependence health--wealth / \ coordination \ \ extrinsic / speech reminiscence \ sound similarity But since our table shows this association to have an empirical value of 7.6 per cent, it becomes immaterial which of its logical relations is to be considered the strongest. It is mainly important, from our point of view, to separate reactions possessing an empirical value from those whose value is zero. Sec. 6. AN EMPIRICAL PRINCIPLE OF NORMAL ASSOCIATION. On a general survey of the whole mass of material which forms the basis of the first part of this study, we are led to observe that _the one tendency which appears to be almost universal among normal persons is the tendency to give in response to any stimulus word one or another of a small group of common reactions_. |
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