f. Repetition of previous reaction.
g. Reaction repeated five times (stereotypy).
(b) Neologisms without sound relation.
3. Unclassified.



Sec. 3. NON-SPECIFIC REACTIONS; DOUBTFUL REACTIONS.


*Non-specific Reactions.*--It has already been intimated that common
reactions are in the vast majority of instances to be regarded as
normal. From amongst them, however, a fairly definite group can be
separated out which seems to possess some pathological significance,
namely, the group which we have termed non-specific.

In this group are placed words which are so widely applicable as to
serve as more or less appropriate reactions to almost any of our
stimulus words. That such reactions are in value inferior to the
remaining group of common reactions, which we have termed, in
contradistinction, _specific reactions_, is perhaps sufficiently
obvious; we shall speak later, however, of their occurrence in both
normal and insane cases.

It is not always easy to judge whether or not a given reaction should
be classed as non-specific. A study of our material made with special
reference to this type of reactions has enabled us to select the
following list of words, any of which, occurring in response to any
stimulus word, is classed as a non-specific reaction: