外向性格、场独立性及认知作业的操作

 取120名12岁儿童作被试.(a)调查外向性格、神经过敏症及场独立性之间的关系.(b)调查外向性格和场依存性对两个认知作业(推理和回忆散文)的影响.(c)研究人格特点和言语——表象学习方式之间的关系.     

Reaction time and probability on isolated terms

The reaction-time probability effect on isolated trials was found to be asymmetrical in an experiment on 64 college students. There was a large drop in RT for a high-probability probe trial embedded in a block of low-probability trials, but a much smaller rise for a low-probability trial embedded in high-probability trials. Thus, low- but not high-probability responses seem to be influenced by characteristics of the trial block. If the basis of the probability effect were the strategic placement of the criterion for response initiation, symmetrical results should have been obtained. A motivational account which accords with the present data is that the subject is ordinarily willing to prepare but is averse to doing so in some (not entirely specified) low-probability circumstances.     

A procedure for studying echoic control in verbal behavior

Male and female college students answered standard questions about the women's liberation movement on three occasions. A set of target words was embedded in the questions, with one set used in Sessions 1 and 3, and a synonymous, but different set used in Session 2. The relative frequencies of usage of a given target word were directly related to whether the questions for that session contained the word. The results supported the hypothesis of echoics as proposed in Skinner's theory of verbal behavior.     

自由与异化

1.黑格尔说:“只有当没有外在于我与我不相干的他物时,方能说是自由。”从表面看,这句话没有什么意义。我们怎样理解“没有外在于我与我不相干的他物”这句话的意思呢?黑格尔好象是说,只有当我们认为我们自己同我们的周围事物没有不同,也就是当自我与他人的差异被克服的时候,那才算实现了自由。但是只要我们有所行动,任何时候只要我们企图进行改变周围事物的活动,就会感到这种差异的存在。我的行动包含了把我自己同我行动所及的周围事物分离开来的过程。因此,从字面上讲,黑格尔的上述名言只能施用于那些无所行动的人,但是自由的概念与这样的人却是毫不相干的。不过我愿指出,黑格尔的名言含有关于自由的重要真理。他的主张是:我之所以能够自由的一个必要条件,就是我必须同我生活于其中的周围事物保持某种协调一致的关系——什么样的协调一致,下面再讲。在黑格尔看来,这个世界既包括我的物质环境,也包括我的社     

Aging and the use of advance probability information

Two experiments were performed to investigate the relation between age and use of advance probability information to prepare for a simple response. In both, an occasional presignal occurring about.5 sec before a possible response signal informed the subject that the probability of a response signal had increased from.1 to.5 In experiment 1, 24 women and men selected for short RT were tested, all between 21 and 78 yr of age. Subjects under 50 were able to use the advance information to shorten their RTs as were the majority of older subjects. However, for some older subjects the presignal produced a negative effect, a paradoxical lengthening of RT. In Experiment 2, using five of the older subjects from Experiment 1, more intensive testing was done with closer spacing of trials. Subjects who previously showed a lengthening of RT with the presignal now showed the typical shortening. In summary, over the age span investigated, almost all selected older subjects as well as younger subjects.     

天津、河北、四川、安徽美学学会相继成立

天津市美学学会于一九八○年九月十五日正式成立。第一批会员有一百四十三人,其中相当于讲师和助理研究员以上的会员居半。大会聘请方纪、孙犁、朱维之和徐中任学会顾问,并一致选举鲍昌为会长,张怀瑾、吴火、阎丽川为副会长,吴火兼任秘书长,姜东赋、童坦为副秘书长。鲍昌代表第一届理事会对我市今后的美学研究和普及工作提出了初步设想。重点有三:一是开展各个艺术门类的美学研究,二是开展什么是社     

卡尔·鲍波尔—垄断国家改良主义哲学家

在本章的标题中,我之所以这样称呼鲍波尔,是因为他的哲学主要是为德意志联邦共和国垄断国家改良主义提供理论依据效劳的。不过,我要避免使人产生这样一种印象,好象鲍波尔的哲学并没有被保守势力所利用似的。比如属于鲍波尔“批判理性主义”圈子里的托皮奇(Topitsch),就是一位露骨的保守人物。鲍波尔的哲学成了资产阶级“社会工艺学”,(Sozialtechnologie)一切变种的总根子。