柯林斯语义层次网络模型的实验研究

应用语义验证法对柯林斯与奎利安的语义层次网络模型进行研究,结果表明:(1)柯林斯等人的语义层次网络模型不完全适用于人脑的信息加工;(2)被试对主语所指称客体的熟悉程度是决定语义验证时间的一个重要因素;(3)被试提取概念各属性的时间并非完全由属性储存的位置决定的。     

多种因素对时间连续阈限的影响

该研究做了两个实验,研究了七个因素——刺激的类型、刺激的复杂度、刺激的强度、刺激的呈现时间、被试对两刺激的判断标准、同一种感觉道的个数、性别——对时间连续阈限的影响.在实验一中,结果表明,刺激的类型、刺激的呈现时间、被试对两刺激的判断标准和同一种感觉道的个数四个因素对时间连续阈限有显著影响,而刺激的复杂度、刺激的强度和性别三个因素对时间连续阈限没有显著影响。在实验二中,结果表明,在影响显著的四个因素之间不存在交互作用。     

信度系数与观测分数和潜在特质的相关比

在经典真分数模型中,信度系数R=D(T)/D(X)。通常认为,信度系数与项目反应理论没有什么联系。事实上,信度系数恰好等于考生观测分数与潜在特质分数的非线性相关比η_(xθ)~2=1-MD(x|θ)/D(X),据此我们得出估计信度系数的一种新途径,同时讨论了x、θ的相关系数与相关比η_(xθ)~2的关系。     

A randomized clinical trial of inpatient family intervention: VI. Mediating variables and outcome

In a randomized clinical trial of Inpatient Family Intervention (IFI) for 169 inpatients with schizophrenia, affective disorder, and a residual group of other diagnoses, results suggested significant effects favoring IFI for patients and their families. The treatment effects were limited to females and to two diagnostic groups: chronic schizophrenia patients and the bipolar subgroup of affective disorders.     

Serial learning by rhesus monkeys: I. Acquisition and retention of multiple four-item lists.

Two rhesus monkeys were trained to learn eight 4-item lists, each composed of 4 different photographs. Lists were trained in successive phases: A, A----B, A----B----C, and A----B----C----D. After List 4, retention, as measured by the method of savings, was, on average, 66% (range: 44-84%). Indeed, all 4 lists could be recalled reliably during a single session with neither a decrement in accuracy nor an increase in the latency of responding to each item. Response latencies on a subset test employing all possible 2- and 3-item subsets of each 4-item list support the hypothesis that monkeys form linear representations of a list. Latencies to Item 1 of a subset varied directly with the position of that item in the original list. On List 1, latencies to Item 2 varied directly with the number of intervening items between Item 1 and Item 2 in the original list. During the acquisition of Lists 5-8, both Ss mastered the A----B and A----B----C phases of training in the minimum number of trials possible.     

Chunking during serial learning by a pigeon: III. What are the necessary conditions for establishing a chunk?

What are the minimal conditions for the formation of chunks by a pigeon learning an arbitrary list? Experiment 1 compared the acquisition of two types of chunkable list (each composed of colors and achromatic geometric forms): A----B----C----D'----E' (or A'----B'----C'----D----E) and A----B----C'----D'----E' (or A'----B'----C----D----E). The first type of list was acquired more rapidly than the second. On both lists, however, evidence of chunking did not emerge until the four-item phase of training (e.g., pauses at the end of one category of list item). In Experiment 2, chunking was shown to occur on four-item lists in which colors and forms were segregated (A----B----C'----D' and A'----B'----C----D), but not on lists in which the two types of items were interspersed (A----B'----C'----D and A'----B----C----D'). As in Experiment 1, evidence of chunking (pauses at chunk boundaries) did not appear until the fourth item was added.     

中国男子健将级跳高运动员神经类型和场依存性特征的研究

本文运用了安菲莫夫矫正法和棒框测验两项心理测验方法,对中国81名现役男子跳高运动员(二级25人,一级33人,健将23人)进行了神经类型和场依存性一独立性等征两项心理素质的测定。数据处理结果发现:1.健将级运动员的神经类型分布差异达显著水平,其中安静型占47.83％,兴奋型占43.47％,而在其他两个等级的跳高运动员中,神经类型的分布差异都未达显著水平;2.健将级运动员的场独立性最强,与一、二级跳高运动员相比,其差异这显著水平。本文从理论上初步揭示了这两项心理素质与高水平跳高运动的内在联系,阐明了安静型与兴奋神经类型和较强的场独立性在跳高比赛中的优势。以上两个发现对男子跳高运动员的心理选材和训练都有参考价值。     

智力落后儿童用左、右手抓物的实验研究

本研究旨在探讨智力落后儿童在实验情景下用手抓物的方式、及其与大脑侧偏化的关系。结果表明:(1)智力落后儿童混用手情况多。被试在取物时,使用左手或右手次数的比率平均约为1:2,相当于1—2岁正常儿童用左、右手取物的比率;(2)性别与年龄对落后儿童用手方式无明显影响;(3)病情等级对用手方式有明显影响:轻度智力落后儿童使用左、右手的比率大于中、重度智力落后儿童的同样比率;(4)智力落后儿童抓物的线索在四个实验中不完全相同:实验Ⅰ至Ⅲ的线索为位置(近手),实验Ⅳ为对实验用具的喜爱;(5)在混用手与大脑侧偏化(或优势脑未分化)不完善之间,可能有直接关系。此问题尚需进一步研究。     

4.5—7.5岁儿童对年龄认知发展的实验研究

本研究探讨儿童对年龄认知发展的过程和特点。主要结果表明:(1)在呈现刺激数量相等的条件下学前儿童对年龄时序相对可变性的认知成绩低于对相对固定性的认知,对前者的认知表现出学龄前、学龄后两个明显的发发阶段;(2)学前儿童对出生次序的认知成绩低于对年龄大小的认知成绩;(3)儿童对年龄将来时的认知表现出由近及远、由短及长的发展趋向。     

Bi-directional relations between behavioral problems and executive function: Assessing the longitudinal development of self-regulation

During childhood, the ability to limit problem behaviors (i.e., externalizing) and the capacity for cognitive regulation (i.e., executive function) are often understood to develop in tandem, and together constitute two major components of self-regulation research. The current study examines bi-directional relations between behavioral problems and executive function over the course of childhood and adolescence. Relying on a diverse sample of children growing up in low-income neighborhoods, we applied a random intercept cross-lagged panel model to longitudinally test associations between behavioral problems and executive function from age 4 through age 16. With this approach, which disaggregated between- and within-child variation, we did not observe significant cross-lagged paths, suggesting that within-child development in one domain did not strongly relate to development in the other. We also observed a moderate correlation between the stable between-child components of behavioral problems and executive function over time in our preferred model, suggesting that these two domains may be relatively distinct when modeled from early childhood through adolescence.