Japanese Psychological Research
Online ISSN : 1468-5884
Print ISSN : 0021-5368
Volume 12, Issue 3
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  • SHIZUHIKO NISHISATO
    1970 Volume 12 Issue 3 Pages 87-95
    Published: 1970
    Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
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    A method for estimating probabilities of 2n dichotomous response patterns is proposed. Incorporated in the method are two techniques: the fractional replicate principle, which would mitigate the size problem (the number of possible patterns and the number of parameters): a logistic representation of probabilities, which would assure the efficient use of the fractional principle, and which eliminates the possibility that an estimate may exceed the range of the probability measure. Numerical examples suggest that the proposed method may be very useful whenever some approximation to the probability is required.
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  • GIYOO HATANO
    1970 Volume 12 Issue 3 Pages 96-106
    Published: 1970
    Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
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    A questionnaire, consisting of 6 sets of questions concerning 3 wrongful acts, was constructed using the paradigm for concept learning and was administered to 2nd, 4th and 6th graders and female college students. Older respondents tended to be less consequence-(C-) oriented and more pure motive-(M-) oriented, though the college students became more consequentialistic when required to judge in terms of law-breaking instead of morality. In order to examine flexibility of children in utilizing cues 11 M-oriented and 12 C-oriented 2nd graders were asked to anticipate a hypothetical person's judgment between 2 acts and informed of his “real” answer which was the reverse of their preexperimental tendency. After 6 reinforced items, all M-oriented and 5 C-oriented Ss were able to anticipate correctly.
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  • SHIGEO KASHIWAGI
    1970 Volume 12 Issue 3 Pages 107-114
    Published: 1970
    Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
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    Based on the concept of level contributions of factors, the possibility which the orthogonal factor rotation may be defined in terms of statistic moment is studied.
    First of all, by using the principle of single plane rotation, the leveling functions of the k-th order moments about the origin and the mean are discussed and some manageable formulas for the rotational angles are introduced.
    Secondly, the relations between the leveling moment functions and the conventional maximizing moment functions are discussed.
    Thirdly, we suggest a new possible criterion, VARILEVEL, when the notion that factor loadings should be squared is justifiable.
    Finally, the experiments of Harman's data are presented.
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  • MIOKO TAKAHASHI
    1970 Volume 12 Issue 3 Pages 115-130
    Published: 1970
    Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
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    The threshold luminance of test field (13.2′ in diameter) presented with a rectangular inducing field (180.9′×18.9′) was measured by the constant method. A parafoveal test field whose center was located within 2° below a fixation point was used. The effect of retinal separation between test and inducing fields was examined in Exp. I, changing it from 0.27° to 2.31°. The effect of inducing luminance (-1.9 to 0.5 log mL) was examined in Exp. II, and that of inducing area (9.4′ to 56.6′ in width) in Exp. III. The results for three Ss were compared with those previously obtained using a ring-shaped inducing field and they were analysed and discussed from the viewpoint of the stray-light hypothesis.
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  • KEN GORYO
    1970 Volume 12 Issue 3 Pages 131-140
    Published: 1970
    Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
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    5 digits were sequentially presented to the same portion of the retina with various rates (50-4 cps) for 5 to 10 subjects, and the interactions among the visual responses to the digits were investigated. Subject's task was to report the whole digits he had seen (Exp. I) or to answer whether a particular digit had been contained in a stimulus series or not (Exp. II). Percentage of correct responses in both experiments varied as a function of serial position in the stimulus series. The serial position curves were almost always in U-shape and the bottom of the curves shifted from anterior to posterior serial position as the rate of presentation decreased. It was concluded that there are at least two kinds of interactions (forward and backward maskings) among responses in the visual mechanism for processing the information sequentially given with high speed.
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  • 1970 Volume 12 Issue 3 Pages e2
    Published: 1970
    Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
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