The time for the experiment, whatever its nature might be, had at
last arrived, and Dr. Guthrie introduced Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby
to us as specialists whom he had persuaded with great difficulty
to come down from New York. Mr. Willoughby he requested to remain
outside until after the tests. She seemed perfectly calm as she
greeted us, and looked with curiosity at the paraphernalia which
Kennedy had installed in her library. Kennedy, who was putting
some finishing touches on it, was talking in a low voice to
reassure her.
"If you will sit here, please, Mrs. Willoughby, and place your
hands on these two brass domes--there, that's it. This is just a
little arrangement to test your nervous condition. Dr. Guthrie,
who understands it, will take his position outside in the music-
room at that other table. Walter, just switch off that light,
please.
"Mrs. Willoughby, I may say that in testing, say, the memory, we
psychologists have recently developed two tests, the event test,
where something is made to happen before a person's eyes and later
he is asked to describe it, and the picture test, where a picture
is shown for a certain length of time, after which the patient is
also asked to describe what was in the picture.
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