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Field - articulation in recall
Performance on Witkin’s Embedded Figures and Rod and Frame Tests were related to recall and recognition of two lists of words in an interference situation. The results support Gollin and Baron’s (1954) finding...
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Selective attention and the Mueller-Lyer illusion
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Predecisional Search in Concept Formation: The Effects of Problem Complexity
Predecisional search was studied among 72 women Ss with concept formation problems in which total uncertainty, information per exemplar, and proportion of relevant attributes were controlled. Analyses of varia...
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The 11th Meeting of the Pavlovian Society of North America
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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 effect of companion on consumption of ethanol solution in cats
Social influences on drinking ethanol solution were studied in two cats (“drinkers”) who voluntarily drank small amounts of 10% ethanol solution in milk and three other cats (“nondrinkers”) who served as compa...
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Parental discord vs family structure: effects of divorce on the self-esteem of daughters
This study investigated the effects of family structure (parents together or not) and parental discord (ratings of the happiness of the marriage of biological parents) on the self-esteem of 199 female undergra...
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Neuropsychological Assessment and Treatment of Head Trauma Patients
Head trauma has undoubtedly been a significant problem since the beginning of man, but it’s incidence, in our fast-based technological society, has reached staggering proportions. Caveness (1977) estimated tha...
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Heterosexual involvement of unmarried under-graduate females in relation to self-evaluations
It was hypothesized that a higher degree of heterosexual involvement among unmarried female undergraduates would be associated with more positive self-evaluations. This idea was investigated among 79 college w...
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Reaction time and diazepam plasma concentration in subjects with normal gastric pH
The present study investigated the relationship of reaction time with the plasma concentration of four different formulations of diazepam (liquid, original, new, and generic). On four separate days, over a 4-m...
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Clinical Laboratory Aspects of Eating Disorders
Clinical laboratory studies have only recently been applied to the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders. The most remarkable laboratory investigations in this area have been in etiology and sequelae of ...
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Individual experience and paradox in the development of small groups
This study attempts to understand individual emotional experience in the context of group development. It emphasizes the first level of abstraction of group member experience rather than individual experience ...
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Intuitive statistical inference: Categorization of binomial samples depends on sampling context
Pigeons categorized binomial samples. One of two “coins” was tossed on each trial, and birds learned to infer from observing the outcomes which of the two equally likely coins had been tossed. Outcomes (“heads...
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Illusory Control as a Function of Motivation for a Specific Outcome in a Chance-Based Situation
Previous research has provided evidence that an individual's need for a chance-based outcome positively affects perceptions of the skill involved in attaining the outcome as well as certainty of ...
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Use of Alcohol, Illicit Drugs, and Tobacco Among Characters on Prime-Time Television
Previous research of addictive substances suggests that use of alcohol, illicit drugs, and tobacco is overrepresented on prime-time television (TV). These studies, however, have relied on frequency counts of t...
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Response-class hierarchies and resurgence of severe problem behavior
Resurgence may be defined generally as the extinction-induced recurrence of previously learned response patterns. Understanding the conditions under which this phenomenon occurs has theoretical, clinical, and ...
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Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes in the Perception of Reversible Figures: Toward a Hybrid Model
Reversible figures such as the Necker cube are ambiguous visual patterns that support at least two markedly different perceptual organizations. During a period of continuous viewing, observers’ conscious exper...
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder’s Traumatic Stressor Criterion: History, Controversy, and Clinical and Legal Implications
This paper discusses posttraumatic stress disorder’s (PTSD) traumatic stressor criterion (Criterion A) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). The history of the stressor criterion ...
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Preliminary Effects of Conditioned Establishing Operations on Stereotypy
We repeatedly paired preferred stimuli with known establishing properties and poster boards (i.e., neutral stimuli) to examine whether these poster boards would acquire the effects of a conditioned establishin...
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Mesure de la complexité de la prise en charge et de l’évaluation contextuelle du patient dans un service d’oncologie ambulatoire, une approche novatrice avec INTERMED
Pour développer et faciliter la prise en charge globale et contextuelle des patients, le service d’oncologie ambulatoire de l’EHC-Morges s’est doté d’un instrument de mesure de la complexité: INTERMED. La situ...
