No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.
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The learning of the syllables calls into play the three sensory fields, sight, hearing and the muscle sense of the organs of speech.
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The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
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These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.
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The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.
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