The Japanese Journal of Psychology
Online ISSN : 1884-1082
Print ISSN : 0021-5236
ISSN-L : 0021-5236
PSYCHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP IN THE MODIFICATION OF REFLEXIVE MOTION
HIROKO YAMAMOTO
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1974 Volume 45 Issue 2 Pages 68-72

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The aim of this study was to examine how normal knee-jerk reflexes were modified during adding tasks of three levels of complexity, easy, intermediate (Kraepelin test) and difficult. 8 Ss were assigned for each task groups, all were female college students. Facilitation effects in knee-jerks were observed when amounts of work done diminished (in the difficult task group), inhibition effects were observed when amounts of work done increased (in the easy task group). Amounts of work done in the control groups (no reflex-examination) increased by simple repitition. Knee-jerks of another group of 8 Ss, whose knee-jerks had been measured during the first trial of the intermediate task, were more facilitated than knee-jerks measured during the second trial.
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