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An Example of an Hysterical Reaction Type-Cont.

Stimulus word	Reaction Time Unit 0.2 second	Reaction	Reproduction
despise	30	that is a complicated, too foolish	?
finger	8	hand, not only hand, but also foot, a joint, member, extremity
dear	14	to pay (laughs)
bird	8	to fly
to fall	30	tomber, I will say no more, what do you mean by fall?	?
book	6	to read
unjust	8	just
frog	11	quack
to part	30	what does part mean?	?
hunger	10	to eat
white	12	color, everything possible, light
child	10	little, I did not hear well, bébé	?
to take care	14	attention
lead pencil	8	to draw, everything possible can be drawn
sad	9	to weep, that is not always the case	to be
plum	16	to eat a plum, pluck what do you mean by it? Is that symbolic?	fruit
to marry	27	how can you? reunion, union	union alliance

The following curves illustrate the course of the reaction time in an association experiment in four normal test persons. The length of each column denotes the length of the reaction time.