COLLECTED PAPERS PREPARED UNDER WORK UNIT ENDORSE: EFFECTS OF CONTROLLED ISOLATION ON PERFORMANCE

The collection of papers given at meetings of the Western Psychological and the American Psychological Associations during the years 1958-1961 reports on specific phases of research to evaluate experimentally the effects of sensory deprivation and social isolation upon a variety of human behaviors. The phases reported on include a study involving a complex discrimination task in response to an auditory stimulus; an experiment involving positive-suggestive or negative-suggestive instructions concerning the possibilities of actual visual sensations in semi- or complete darkness; an experiment on the influence of positive and negative instructions concerning visual sensations; an experiment to develop a simple motor task to indicate efficiency of reception of instructions in complete darkness after sensory or social deprivation; an experiment to assess the effects of misinformation on the counting of auditory stimuli; a study to assess the effects of sensory deprivation and social isolation on reception of complex instructions; and a study of an auditory vigilance technique. (Author) Presentations and Papers, 1958-1961.