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Stimulus compounding in pigeons
Two pigeons were trained on a three-ply multiple schedule in which reinforcement was available on a VI 1-min schedule for two of the components and extinction was in effect for the third component. SDs associa...
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Habenular lesions and avoidance learning deficits in albino rats
Albino rats were given either habenular lesions or control operations and evaluated postsurgically during one-way active avoidance and passive avoidance training. Rats with habenular lesions, particularly thos...
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Visual Behavior as an Aspect of Power Role Relationships
There is an intriguing paradox inherent in the shared glance. On the one hand, there is the suggestion that willingness to engage in mutual glances is a means of establishing union with another (Simmel, 1969) ...
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The psychology of tokenism: An analysis
American society is analyzed as a gender-class system wherein tokenism is defined as a form of interclass mobility. Two role partners, Sponsor and Token, sustain the institution of tokenism: the Token is a mem...
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Individual and sex differences in reminiscence
Inverted alphabet printing, rotary pursuit, and mirror tracking tasks were administered to 84 subjects in order to ascertain (a) reproducibility of reminiscence scores within and between tasks and (b)sex diffe...
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Response programming vs. alternative interpretations of the “dit-dah” reaction time effect
In a three-choice reaction time paradigm, subjects made buttonpress responses of short, medium, or long duration. Reaction time increased monotonically with the three levels of required response duration for e...
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Relative rod and cone contributions in iconic storage
Using a two-alternative forced-choice procedure, subjects were required to detect a 4’ spatial gap between two briefly presented luminous rectangles when there was a temporal delay between the offset of the fi...
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Commenton Hawkins and Shulman’s Type I and Type II visual persistence
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Relative male age, fertility, and competitive mating success inDrosophila melanogaster
Female choice experiments were used to investigate the effect of relative male age on mating success inD. melanogaster. Experiments were conducted with a Canton-S (CS) strain, in which two virgin males of differe...
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Observations on the initiation of eating of new food by weanling kittens
The reaction to a new food and the initiation of its consumption were studied in daily sessions in 19 weanling kittens from four litters at 30–39 days of age. The new food consisted of canned tuna for two litt...
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The contribution of visual persistence to the perceived duration of brief targets
Two experiments were conducted to examine the role of sensory persistence on tasks of perceived duration employing very brief visual stimuli. Using a standard temporal judgment task, the first experiment repli...
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The effects of spatial frequency and target type on perceived duration
Two experiments are reported that attempt to demonstrate a critical role played by sensory persistence on a standard perceived-duration task employing brief visual stimuli. Experiment 1 examined the effect on ...
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Documentation of change in problem behaviors among anxious and hostile-aggressive children enrolled in a therapeutic preschool program
A relatively simple, straightforward procedure is utilized to identify and document changes in problem behaviors among children enrolled in a therapeutic preschool program. Results of two outcome measures indi...
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Spatial disinhibition of orientation analyzers
Following the successive presentation of two masking gratings (M1 and M2), subjects were required to detect the presence or absence of a single vertical line (TS). When the orientations of the two masks were o...
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The effects of stimulus numerosity, retinal location, and rod contrast on perceived duration of brief visual stimuli
The effects of manipulating three stimulus parameters were determined on a standard perceived duration task using 40- and 70-msec visual stimuli. In Experiment 1, it was found that perceived duration increased...
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Visual selective attention in learning disabled and normal boys
Learning disabled and normal control boys were compared in a reaction time task that required same-different judgments about the size or shape of visually presented geometric forms. In one condition, the subje...
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Persisting problems in persistence: A response to Bowling and Lovegrove
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Target energy effects on Type 1 and Type 2 visual persistence
The effects of varying target energy (luminance and duration) were determined for two different types of visual persistence. Type 1 persistence, which reflects the latency for perceived offset of a brief stimu...
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The influence of televised models on toy preference in children
Eighteen boys and 18 girls aged 4–6 years viewed one of three videotapes in which fantasy characters used culturally stereotyped arguments to assign masculinity, femininity, or sex-role neutrality to a standar...
