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Volume 21, Issue 3
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CHITOSHI ARARAGI1979 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 105-113
Published: December 30, 1979
Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe present study was designed to assess whether or not the effect of agreement in the P-O-Q triad in non-laboratory situations is influenced by the level of sociometric status each person holds. One hundred and twenty-two fifth graders served as subjects, who were divided into three (High, Middle, & Low) groups in terms of their sociometric status. The observed frequencies of each of the cognitively balanced configurations were used as the measure of balance. The agreement effect was found more frequently when the subjective sign configuration of R3 (O-Q relation as perceived by P) coincided with the objective sign configuration of R3 (real O-Q relation) than when it did not. When the two R3 configurations coincided, the higher the sociometric status each subject held, the more frequent was the agreement effect. But when they did not coincide, the agreement effect was not attributed to the level of sociometric status each subject held. These results indicate that the higher the sociometric status each subject holds, the more likely is the agreement effect to occur.View full abstractDownload PDF (653K) -
THE EFFECT OF ORIENTATION-FREE PRESENTATIONKIYOSHI ISHII, KEIICHIRO TSUJI1979 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 114-121
Published: December 30, 1979
Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe ability of kittens in discriminating length-breadth ratio of geometrical figures was examined with a tracking method. In Experiment I, kittens were trained to discriminate a rectangle from a square, both in free orientation and fixed orientation tasks. In the former task, the spatial orientations of the stimulus figures presented were varied randomly from trial to trial, and in the latter, the orientation of the figures was fixed. The results showed that kittens could discriminate the rectangle with the length-breadth ratio of 1.2:1 (R 1.2) from the square, but failed to discriminate R 1.1 with both orientation tasks. In Experiment II, an ellipse and a circle were used as stimuli, and the area of the circle was varied in three steps in a random order as an irrelevant cue in addition to changing the orientation of the ellipse in the free orientation task. The kittens showed the same discriminatory ability with the free orientation task as with the fixed orientation task. However, the level of discrimination achieved in Experiment II was much lower than that achieved in Experiment I, and possible causes of the difference were discussed.View full abstractDownload PDF (542K) -
VISUAL EVOKED RESPONSE AND RAPID EYE MOVEMENT DURING PARADOXICAL SLEEP IN RATSKAZUNORI YOSHIDA, SHINKURO IWAHARA1979 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 122-131
Published: December 30, 1979
Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSVisual evoked response (VER) to flash was averaged at the occipital cortex during paradoxical sleep (PS) in rats. The peak-to-peak amplitude with about 30 to 80 msec latency decreased as rapid eye movement (REM) rates during PS increased. Theta frequency increased with REM rates but there was no clear relationship between VER amplitude and theta frequency when no REM occurred. Further, after the medial septal lesions which abolished hippocampal theta activity, the relationship between the VER amplitude and REM rates remained while the VER amplitude, as a whole, was enhanced. Thus cortical VER may be assumed to be controlled by two inhibitory systems associated with (a) REM and (b) hippocampal theta activity. Usually they are highly related but may function independently at least in rats.View full abstractDownload PDF (785K) -
FUMIKO MATSUDA, MICHIHIKO MATSUDA1979 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 132-138
Published: December 30, 1979
Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIt was confirmed by the reproduction method in children of 7 to 10 yrs. and adults that (a) as subjects were younger, the kappa effect was stronger, and that (b) the kappa effect was stronger under the condition where subjects were assumed to form the set more easily in using the spatial separation as a cue for time estimation than under conditions where they are assumed to form the set less easily. These findings verified that the kappa effect in successively presented static stimuli was not contradictory to the hypothesis of “cue-selection sets” which was interpreted from the results of the first author's previous studies on a moving stimulus.View full abstractDownload PDF (565K) -
JUJI MIYAKAWA, HIROAKI OHNOGI1979 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 139-145
Published: December 30, 1979
Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSTo examine the role of the visual searching strategy on Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures (MFF) test, third-grade children who were judged as impulsive or reflective were given a training of elimination or re-examination strategy. Only the impulsive children who were given the elimination strategy made significantly fewer errors on post-test than controls, without increase in latency. It is concluded from these results that one of the main factors explaining the differences between the reflective and the impulsive children in the MFF performance is the differences in the use of strategy: The reflective children adopt the elimination strategy during MFF testing, while the impulsives lack it.View full abstractDownload PDF (556K) -
IN THE LIVING ROOMTADASHI KIKUCHI, TENJI WAKE, KEISHIRO TAKEICHI1979 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 146-152
Published: December 30, 1979
Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSEffects of illumination upon the comfortableness of visual environment of a miniature-living room were examined under various lighting conditions, using the semantic differential method. Three components were extracted by principal components analysis. The first component, activity, was entirely affected by illuminance. The second, elegance, was related to illuminance and color temperature. Color temperature was practically responsible for the third, warm feeling. Discrepancies were observed at lower color temperature levels when a relationship between illuminance and color temperature for pleasantness was compared with Kruithof's results.View full abstractDownload PDF (2151K) -
YOSHIO INAMORI1979 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 153-157
Published: December 30, 1979
Released on J-STAGE: February 24, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSTwelve male subjects received false heart rate (HR) feedback or dichotic buzz during presentation of 12 slides of nude females. All subjects were instructed that spatial changes of the buzz source toward the right or left represented their HR increase or decrease. The results indicated that eight subjects, who believed false feedback to be their own HR, rated slides associated with false HR increase as significantly more attractive than slides associated with either on change or decrease in false HR feedback. Their actual HR after slide onset generally decreased regardless of feedback conditions. It was concluded that differences in rating behavior between the increase and two remaining conditions were due to cognitive modification independent of actual HR changes.View full abstractDownload PDF (390K)
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