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Volume 11 (1969)
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Volume 11, Issue 2
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MIRZA S. SAIYADAIN1969 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 41-45
Published: 1969
Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSStudies in the field of persuasion and communication have used known sources to test the effect of credibility on influence. What pattern of opinion change occurs when Ss themselves identify the credibility of the communicator, is the concern of this study. PROCEDURE: In a reading comprehension-testsituation Ss made their judgements about their degree of agreement with the author on an issue. RESULTS:(1) Opinion change was found to be curvilinearly related with low prestige source.(2) Variation in the prestige of the communicator did not make any significant difference.(3) The two curves interacted significantly showing that at some points the means of the two sources are significantly away from each other.View full abstractDownload PDF (376K) -
KEN GORYO1969 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 46-53
Published: 1969
Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis study examined the effect of the amount of past experience upon the binocular rivalry between one of portraits of male students (F-figure) and a geometrical figure (G-figure). Prior to the observation of binocular rivalry, F-figures were presented with different frequencies in the paradigm of pairedassociate learning between F-figures and the family names randomly assigned to them. The results showed the tendency that the relative dominance of F-figure over the other in binocular rivalry systematically increases as the frequency of previous presentation (PF) of the F-figures increases.View full abstractDownload PDF (527K) -
SHIGEO KASHIWAGI1969 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 54-65
Published: 1969
Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSWe propose to apply the Weibull distribution to the analysis of mental test scores. As the first place, we review the distribution theory of test scores by Lord (1952) and suggest the relationship between the theory and the shape parameter of this distribution.
First of all, we describe the simple Weibull distribution and the discussion concerning the estimation of the shape parameter is made. Especially, the emphasis is placed on the method by means of the Weibull Probability Paper (wpp), and it is pointed out that the method is very useful and recommendable in view of being accurate practically.
Secondly, we discuss the concept of measurability of test, and make comment on the difference between the discriminability of test and the measurability. And further, the mixed or composite Weibull distribution is suggested to be useful under a certain condition.
Finally, several numerical examples are presented and we discuss some of the important aspects of our method based on the Weibull distribution.View full abstractDownload PDF (757K) -
TSUNEKO YOSHIDA, MASAKO KAI, HIROSHI IMADA1969 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 66-75
Published: 1969
Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSTwo CER experiments were conducted with ‘licking’ as the criterion response. In Experiment I, rats'(N=12) number of tongue laps in a drinking box was significantly suppressed by the presentation of a CS which had been paired with electric shock previously. This suppression was not observed in the control group of 11 Ss. In Experiment II, the effect of US intensity upon CER was tested with 11 Ss using a within-subject design. The CS's of two modalities were reinforced with electric shock of two intensities in a balanced design. The Ss' drinking response was significantly more suppressed by the presentation of a CS which had been paired with stronger shock than of that with weaker shock. The results were discussed mainly from a methodological point of view.View full abstractDownload PDF (686K) -
DETERMINATION OF THE EFFECTIVE ORDER OF ENTROPY ASSOCIATED WITH REINFORCEMENT PATTERNYOSHIMASA HABU, SHIGERU ONO1969 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 76-87
Published: 1969
Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe basic assumption is that with a constant percentage of reinforcement, resistance to extinction (RE) would be a function of uncertainty associated with a reinforcement pattern. 3 groups of rats (double-alternation, 50% random, and continuous) were run in a runway. The last group extinguished most rapidly. No difference in RE was found between the other 2 groups. The conditional entropy of reinforcement-response sequences for the alternation group, as compared with the random group, failed to decrease when its orders were the 3rd or higher. These findings indicate that the second-order conditional entropy will be appropriate for quantifying the uncertainty in question. It was proposed that the RE as determined by uncertainty would be accounted for through intelligibility hypothesis, arousal hypothesis, or probability learning hypothesis.View full abstractDownload PDF (922K)
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