注意视觉搜索研究的新进展

一个时期以来有关注意视觉搜索的研究认为,注意是以系列搜索或平行搜索方式进行的.而Wolfe(1998)通过对10多年有关研究数据整理画出的坡度曲线图则表明,注意视觉搜索坡度的整体分布是没有波峰的,表明系列搜索或平行搜索理论是错误的.而且,他新近研究又表明注意视觉搜索同样遵循认知经济原则:自由无序扫描是比系统扫描更快发现项目的方式.     

Toward a model for spirituality and alcoholism

Spirituality is a significant factor in recovery from alcoholism, whatever definition of this condition one may use. One aspect of alcohol abuse is its apparent relationship to the balance between brain hemispheres. Excessive use of alcohol anesthetizes the object-based, language-oriented functions of the left hemisphere, associated with an action mode of consciousness. This allows greater engagement of the right-hemisphere receptive mode, which is also associated with religious experience. A model of spirituality based on achieving a balance between hemisphere functions and modes of consciousness could provide a non-chemical alternative to excessive use of alcohol.     

Anorexia nervosa: A pastoral update

Anorexia nervosa is a disorder of unknown etiology that is a complex of physical, emotional, and behavioral changes occurring in individuals who starve themselves. The incidence of this disease has increased dramatically in the last twenty years. Most patients seem to be unaware of or unconcerned about their emaciation. After presenting a case, this study reviews the most recent findings about this disease, including the symptoms, social characteristics of its victims, increaed incidence, history, and prognosis. Suggestions are offered for pastoral care and counseling.     

中国-韦氏幼儿智力量表(C-WYCSI)的编制

本文介绍了中国-韦氏幼儿智力量表(C-WYCSI)的编制情况。C-WYCSI是以WPPSI为蓝本编制,包括城市常模(N=2200人)和农村常模(N=1120人)。作者从心理测量学角度对常模的构成、测验项目的筛选及上下限、信度和效度等问题进行了分析与讨论。结果提示:尽管C-WYCSI改变很大,但项目的难度和区分度是较满意的;城市常模的测验下限明显改善,但上限不及原量表;各种信度均达到测量学认可的水平;效度研究结果表明:C-WYCSI较好地保持了WPPSI的功能。     

Keeping the therapist alive

This article focuses on ways in which therapists can mamtain vitality in their work with people. Becoming more aware of personal dynamics, particularly of the need for control and power, is essential. To remain open to new theories and approaches avoids the pitfall of professional encapsulation. Experiencing the client as a person not only facilitates empathy but involves therapists in the growth process as well. Developing a tragic awareness of life enables therapists to maintain a sense of awe, wonder, and grace toward the human predicament, thus bringing depth or spirituality to their work.He is also editor of TheHarding Journal of Religion and Psychiatry.     

Perspectives on contemporary mysticism

Contemporary mysticism is in continuity with religious mysticism of all ages. Mysticism, like all religion, has an ideological and an experiential dimension. Traditional Freudian theory is inadequate for understanding either the ideological or the cognitive aspect, because it does not adequately account for either the cognitive process or the self-conscious I. Categories of both ego psychology and the social scientific approach to religion illuminate contemporary mysticism in ways unavailable to the traditional Freudian psychoanalytic approach. The epistemological implications of the mystical attitude are considered, in both the religious and the scientific enterprises.