Effects of Pointing Rate and Availability of Visual Feedback on Visual and Proprioceptive Components of Prism Adaptation

While looking through laterally displacing prisms, subjects pointed 60 times straight ahead of their nose at a rate of one complete movement every 2 or 3 s, with visual feedback available early in the pointing movement or delayed until the end of the movement. Sagittal pointing was paced such that movement speed covaried with pointing rate. Aftereffect measures (obtained after every 10 pointing trials) showed that when the limb became visible early in a pointing movement, proprioceptive adaptation was greater than visual, but when visual feedback was delayed until the end of the movement, the reverse was true. This effect occurred only with the 3-s pointing rate, however. With the 2-s pointing rate, adaptation was predominately proprioceptive in nature, regardless of feedback availability. Independent of the availability of visual feedback, visual adaptation developed more quickly with 3-s pointing, whereas proprioceptive adaptation developed more rapidly with 2-s pointing. These results are discussed in terms of a model of perceptual-motor organization in which the direction of coordinative (guidance) linkage between eye-head (visual) and hand-head (proprioceptive) systems (and consequently the locus of discordance registration and adaptive recalibration) is determined jointly by pointing rate and feedback availability. An additional effect of pointing rate is to determine the rate of discordant inputs. Maximal adaptive recalibration occurs when the input (pointing) rate matches the time constant of the adaptive encoder in the guided system.     

Discriminability between alternatives in a switching-key concurrent schedule

Six pigeons were trained to discriminate between two intensities of white light in a symbolic matching-to-sample procedure. These stimuli were then used to signal which schedule was available on the main key in a switching-key concurrent schedule. The concurrent schedules led to a symbolic matching-to-sample phase in which the subject identified the concurrent schedule to which it last responded before a reinforcer could be obtained. The concurrent schedules were varied across conditions. Discriminability, measured during the symbolic matching-to-sample performance, was high throughout and did not differ across the two procedures. Performance in the concurrent schedules was like that typically obtained using these schedules. Delays were then arranged between completion of the concurrent schedules and presentations of the symbolic matching-to-sample phase. A series of conditions with an intervening delay of 10 s showed that both concurrent-schedule performance and symbolic matching-to-sample performance were affected by the delay in a similar way; that is, choice responding was closer to indifference.     

《主体·客体·认识》中译本序言

B·A·列克托尔斯基是苏联著名的马克思主义哲学家,现任苏联《哲学问题》杂志主编、科学院哲学所认识论研究室主任。《主体·客体·认识》一书是他的一本有相当高学术价值、享有国际盛名的力作,已被翻译为七种文字。本文系他为该书中译本写的前言,其中谈了对认识论发展的重要看法。该书中译本由贾泽林等人译,将由中国人民大学出版社出版。     

市区活动中心理科班学生的行为和相互作用

我们认为以活动为中心的初中理科班是对两个种族组行为进行比较、对照的理想研究。理由是这些班的学生可以相对自由地选择自己的座位,可以选择伙伴做实验项目,还可以自由支配使用自己的时间。从这些行为中,我们能够对取消了种族隔离的学校中种族间关系的性质,以及对每个五文化组学习科学动机的程度作出推论。此外,也可能确定课堂行为与教师评分之间的关系。在此类班级中成绩的评定,依据的是作业或学习项目的进步,项目结束后的测验、平时测验、最后测验以及教师对学生努力程度的估计。因此,本研究意在回答下列问题: 1.在种族平等以活动为中心的初中理科班中,黑人和自人男生是怎样上课的?行为上     

苏联科学院心理学研究所社会心理学研究的基本总结

在建设共产主义社会的条件下,发展物质-技术基础、完善社会关系和培养新人是三位一体的任务。这一任务是由苏共中央“关于进一步改进思想和政治教育工作的决议”所提出来的。在解决这一任务的纲要中,除其他科学外,社会心理学也占居主要地位;它的客体是研究心理因素和社会发展的相互作用和相互制约的各不同方面。社会心理学研究室(E. B. 肖洛霍娃领导)执行着组织和协调社会心理学领域的科学研究的职能。     

Discriminated interresponse times: role of autoshaped responses.

When discriminated interresponse-time (IRT) procedures have been used to assess preference relations among temporally extended operants, deviations from matching have been obtained. Using a yoked-control procedure, the present study found that key pecking in a discriminated IRT procedure has two sources of strength--that arising from the response-reinforcer contingency that is explicitly arranged, and that arising from a stimulus-reinforcer contingency that is a by-product of the explicitly arranged contingency. The key pecking of all lead birds, and that of 3 of the 4 birds exposed to a yoked autoshaping procedure, was controlled by the keylight that signaled the lead birds' criterion IRTs. Because stimulus control of key pecking by the keylight, whether autoshaped or discriminative, fosters deviations from matching, the discriminated IRT procedure does not provide an appropriate basis for conclusions about preference relations among IRTs.     

Testing the dimensionality of the self-consciousness scales

The self-consciousness scale of Fenigstein, Scheier, and Buss (1975) was subjected to internal and external consistency tests based on the classical test theory model. The scale was found to have five underlying dimensions: two for private self-consciousness (viz., self-reflectiveness and internal state awareness), two for public self-consciousness, and one for social anxiety. The confirmatory factor analysis procedures employed by Burnkrant and Page (1984) are shown to be fallible as indicators of unidimensionality. Theoretical implications of newly identified dimensions in the public self-consciousness subscale are discussed.     

欧州关于领导问题的研究

欧洲学者对于领导问题始终保持着兴趣。现代的有关研究有别于美国,更注重理论探讨,所考查的因素也更为广泛。英国伦敦塔维斯托克人类关系所的研究将组织看作为“社会-技术”系统,而领导就负责管理系统内各子系统间以及与环境间边界关系的过程。英国阿斯顿大学则认为是组织的整体结构而不是个别管理者的领导行为方式决定了组织的运行。斯图亚特的学说介乎两者之间,它将领导分为必须完成的、自愿完成的任务和限制完成任务的因素三种成分,这样领导既是被决定的,又是可作出选择的。在欧洲对领导问题中参与过程的研究很流行。几项大规模的调查表明参与性决策具有差异性和阶段性,因而海勒-维尔波特提出权变理论。领导问题的研究应朝着能够对在某一具体情景下领导者应如何行动作出预测的方向进行。     

苏联飞行员的心理选拔

苏联飞行员心理选拔工作,是从国内战争和外国武装干涉结束后开始的。红军领导人M.B.伏龙芝非常注意这个问题,他指出:“如果我们……把身体素质、心理方面不适于担任部队服务的人员编入空军,那么,实际上我们就很难使用这支战斗力量……这对于空军特别重要。空军对每一名飞行员都有一系列品质方面的要求,而这些品质并非所有的人都具备的。”