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Three kangaroos learned to discriminate horizontal versus vertical black and white stripes and to reverse the habit repeatedly. The course of original learning was similar to that usually observed in other vertebrates. Response to the first reversal was also similar to that usually observed in that there was marked habit interference and behavioural disturbance. The rapidity with which the first reversal was learned was not greater than that observed in other mammals. Two kangaroos showed some improvement as reversals continued, but there was no evidence that they had developed a learning set. The observed improvement could have come from general adaptation to the experimental situation.

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DOI:10.1080/00049536408255497

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年代:1964

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Six experimentalSs were used to condition the reaction‐to‐shock (UCS) of the alpha rhythm of the EEG to a subliminal auditory stimulus of 500 c.p.s. (CS). A matched control group of sixSs was similarly stimulated, but shock and the CS were never paired. On test trials there was a difference between experimental and control groups in reaction to the subliminal stimulus, yielding evidence of conditioning in the experimental group. A neutral subliminal stimulus of 800 c.p.s. was also used to test ability to discriminate between subliminal stimuli. Large individual differences were found, and results are indeterminate. The findings raise neurophysiological questions in terms of cue and arousal functi

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DOI:10.1080/00049536408255498

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Studies exist which have been taken to show that values are additive, and that linear utility scales are appropriate to represent social, economic or aesthetic choices. The predictions of an alternative value model based on set theory differ in choice situations where identical replications appear in the stimuli. 30Ss making preference rankings of replicated picture postcards (a) comparing different degrees of replication of the same picture and (b) comparing different pictures with the same degree of replication for each picture, yielded results which significantly failed to confirm (p<.025) the linear scale or the set theory predictions, but could be accounted for by a lexicographic variant of the set theory model. Relevant axioms or properties of the value models are given, requirements which an adequate theory must meet are indicated.

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DOI:10.1080/00049536408255499

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A spatial aftereffect from cutaneous stimulation has been previously claimed without either descriptions of procedure or quantitative data. Using the method of constant stimuli a tactile spatial aftereffect has been demonstrated on the volar surfaces of the forearms. Details of the conditions of stimulation and of the size and direction of the effect are given together with a description of technique and procedure.

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DOI:10.1080/00049536408255500

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Ss viewed letters through a tube which permitted differential presentation to each eye. In Experiment 1 four letters were projected at a time for 20 msec., while in Experiments 2 and 3 eight letters were projected for 1 sec.Salways perceived the letters as falling in the corners of a square field, and could never tell which eye each letter was projected to, although this was varied. Ten male right eye‐dominant university students wereSs in each experiment. Report was most accurate for projection to the left field of the left eye and right field of the right eye in all experiments. Right eye recognition was much better in Experiment 2 than in Experiment 3, suggesting that only this eye gained from eye movement

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DOI:10.1080/00049536408255501

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A possible advantage of binaural hearing aids was investigated by determining whether words heard binaurally were more intelligible than words of equal power heard monaurally. Six normal listeners wereSs, and their monaural ear (whether left or right) was chosen so that its sensitivity, when averaged for all listeners, was approximately equal to that of the other ear. EachSlistened to ten lists of fifty words; half of the lists were presented monaurally and half binaurally. Five different intensity levels were used, covering a range of 20 db. At every level, the binaural condition, in which each ear received the same power as the monaural ear at the same level, proved superior to the monaural condition. But if one allowed for the fact that when listening with two ears the total power was twice as great as for one ear, this superiority disappeared. The sum of the powers in each ear was no more effective than the same power in one ear. Hence no evidence was found that binaural hearing aids would improve intelligibility.

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DOI:10.1080/00049536408255502

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DOI:10.1080/00049536408255503

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It was hypothesized that choices of “democratic” forms of leadership would be replaced by choices of “omnipotent” and “omniscient” forms in an imaginary crisis situation.Ss were 233 school children aged 11 and 13 years, of both sexes and two differing social class levels. Results were based on responses to fixed alternatives in four questionnaire items. The prediction was very strongly supported, but because of superficialities of method the results may have reflected procedural artefacts rather than the demonstration of a general principle of human

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Book reviewed in this article:Psychology: A Study of a Science. Study II: Empirical Substructures and Relations with other Sciences. Vol. 6, Investigations of Man as a Socius: Their Place in Psychology and the Social Sciences. Sigmund Koch (Ed.). New York. McGraw‐Hill. 1963. xii + 791. Australian price £6. 16s. 6d.Handbook of Mathematical Psychology. R. Duncan Luce, Robert R. Bush, and Eugene Galanter (Eds.). New York. Wiley. 1963. Volume I, xiii + 491; Volume II, vii + 606. Australian price £5. 58. and £6. 0s.Human Senses and Perception. George M. Wyburn, Ralph W. Pickford and Rodney J. Hirst. Edinburgh. Oliver&Boyd. 1963. xii + 337. (Proof Copy reviewed, price unavailable.)The Psychology of Time. Paul Fraisse. Translated by J. Leith. New York. Harper and Row. 1963. vi + 343. $5.50.The Structural Basis of Behaviour. J. A. Deutsch. London. Cambridge University Press. 1960. ix + 185. New Zealand price 37s.Systems and Theories in Psychology. Melvin H. Marx and William A. Hillix. New York. McGraw‐Hill. 1963. xvii + 489. $8.95.Personality Development and Psychopathology: A Dynamic Approach. Norman Cameron. Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 1963. xiv + 793. $8.75.Social Learning and Personality Development. A. Bandura and R. H. Walters. New York. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1963. ix + 329. $7.00.Six Cultures: Studies of Child Rearing. Beatrice B. Whiting (Ed.). New York. Wiley. 1963. vi + 1017. Australian price £6 5s. 0d.Research Readings in Child Psychology. David S. Palermo and Lewis P. Lipsitt. (Eds). New York. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1963. xiii + 572. $7.50.Basic Concepts of Teaching. Asahel D. Woodruff. San Francisco. Chandler. 1961. xviii + 300. No price given.Psychological Foundations of Education. Morris L. Bigge and Maurice P. Hunt. New York. Harper. 1962. xiii + 530. $7.50.Mental Health and the Community. P. J, Lawrence (Ed.), Christchurch, N.Z. Canterbury Mental Health Council. 1963. 590. New Zealand price 35s.The Mentally Retarded Child. A. R. Luria (Ed.). (Trans. W. P. Robinson.) Oxford. Pergamon. 1963. viii + 207. English price 50s.Improve Your Reading Efficiency: A Self‐Instructive Course for University and Matriculation Students. A. W. Anderson. University of Western Australia Press. 1963. Australian price 15s.Experiments with Drugs. H. J. Eysenck. Oxford. Pergamon Press. 1963. 421 pp. English price 100s.Frontiers of Psychology. G. K. Yacorzynski. N.Y. Philosophical Library. 1963. x + 229. $5.00.Problems of Psychiatry and Neurology. Sluchevskii, I. F. (Ed.). Transactions of the Leningrad Society of Neurologists and Psychiatrists. Vol. III. Translated by A. Crozy. Pergamon. 1962. viii + 376. English price 100s.An Introduction to Psychiatry. Kolle, K. Translated by W. Baskin. N.Y. Philosophical Library. 1963. 71. $3.00.General Psychopathology. Karl Jaspers. Translated from the German 7th edition by J. Hoenig, and Marian W. Hamilton. Manchester. The University Press. 1963. 922 + xxxii. English price 75s.Lysergic Acid (LSD 25) and Ritalin in the Treatment of Neurosis. Thomas M. Ling and John Buckman. Sidcup, Kent. The Lambarde Press. 1963. 172. English price 21s.Psycho evaluation: Adaptation‐Distribution‐Adjustment. Milton E. Hahn. New York. McGraw‐Hill. 1963. xi + 228. $7.95.Psychological Interpretations. Leon H. Levy. New York. Holt, Rinehart&Winston. 1963. xii + 368 pp. $6.50.Psychology and Religion: An Introduction to Contemporary Views. G. Stephen Spinks. London. Methuen. 1963. xv + 221. English price 28s.The Varieties of Religious Experience. William James. N.Y. University Books. 1963. xiii + 626. $10.00.To know a Fly. Vincent G. Dethier. Holden‐Day, San Francisco. 1962. 127. $3.75.Digital Computers in Research. Bert F. Green Jr. McGraw‐Hill. 1963. xii + 333. $10.75.Men of the Snowy Mountains. Mona Ravenscroft. Adelaide. Rigby. 1962. 252. A

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DOI:10.1080/00049536408255505

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