Gordon Stanley
Biographic Data
| ID | 347386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon Stanley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Stanley |
| SIGNATURE | STANLEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Origins of Neuropsychology Research and Teaching at the University of Melbourne, Australia
The University of Melbourne hosts a well-known graduate training program in clinical neuropsychology, which was the first formal training program in neuropsychology established in Australia. What is less well known is that neuropsychology research has a much longer history at the University of Melbourne, beginning in the second decade of the 20th century. This chapter briefly traces the early history, which centered on collaborations between staf…
Ability profiles of learning disabled children
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) profiles of 156 male and 52 female children presenting with learning disability at a hospital clinic for learning disabled children were cluster analysed yielding a five-group solution. Similarities were observed between these subtypes and those commonly reported in the literature. However, when the profiles of these subtypes were reordered in terms of Bannatyne's (1968) categories, three distin…
Selecting Student Analog Samples
The use of student analog samples in research may produce low external validity given unintended but perceived coercion on the part of students when the researcher is also their teacher. Using a scale that measured dental fear, analysis showed no significant difference for ‘known’ compared to ‘unknown’ students. The students unknown to the researcher had a lower response rate. Of those who did comply with the request, some were tardy in respondin…
Diagnostic and treatment comparisons of patients presenting at psychiatric emergency centres
This study compares profiles of patients presenting at psychiatric emergency centres based in general hospitals in Australia (Melbourne), America (Boston), and in the United Kingdom (Bristol). Although the distributions of psychiatric emergencies at the three hospitals appeared to be similar, the Melbourne centre had the largest proportion of patients being referred for outpatient treatment. The data suggests a difference in the delivery of servi…
Rose-coloured spectacles
Dyslexia, or specific reading disability, is one of the more puzzling aspects of human development. It is a condition, often ill-defined, which has no agreed cause. This paper examines the evidence for the Irlen lens treatment for dyslexia. The theory behind the practice is rejected on the grounds of imprecision, inaccuracy, and inconsistency with other knowledge about dyslexia. The empirical evidence is found wanting in terms of clear results fr…
Analogue measurement of dental fear
Reliability and validity data are presented for the dental fear thermometer, an analogue scale of dental fear. Test-retest reliability over approximately two months was 0.78. Correlations with the Corah, Gale, and Illig (1978) Dental Anxiety Scale and with estimates of dental fear made by dentists were 0.61 and 0.49 respectively. Therapy produced a significant reduction in the mean fear thermometer score for a group of dental phobics. Horizontal …
Stress and arousal during pregnancy and childbirth
Sixty primigravidae were assessed on the short form of the Stress‐Arousal Adjective Check List (SACL) at the commencement of the third trimester of pregnancy. Fifty‐four of these were also administered the SACL in the labour ward and at three days after birth. On the first assessment the mean levels for the group of mothers were above normative levels of stress but not normative levels of arousal. In labour there was a significant increase in str…
Eye‐movements in dyslexic children
One of the difficulties facing any attempt to investigate a research finding is to know what effect certain differences in procedure or equipment will have on the result. Our previous attempt at looking at non‐reading eye‐movements in developmental dyslexics (Stanley, 1978) produced essentially the same results as another research group (Adler‐Grinberg & Stark, 1978), despite considerable differences in procedure and equipment. With respect to Pa…
Eye‐movements and sequential tracking in dyslexic and control children
The efficiency of eye‐movements while tracking sequential lights was compared for 15 dyslexic children and 15 controls, matched on age and non‐verbal intelligence. Contrary to Pavlidis (1981), no significant differences were found between the two groups on two measures of efficiency. A hierarchical cluster analysis did not demonstrate unique patterns of errors for dyslexics, with the exception of a single female dyslexic
Measurement of stress and arousal
It is suggested that, although often confounded, the mood states of stress and arousal may be independent, and that they may have different psychological consequences. The present investigation demonstrated the ability of a stress/arousal adjective checklist to differentiate between groups of people subject to different potentially stressful situations. The results are interpreted as suggesting that two distinct responses to a perceived demand ar…
Selecting Intelligence Tests for Studies of Dyslexic Children
Teachers were asked to select control children of comparable general ability to dyslexic children in their classes and differences between these two groups were examined. Manual Expression from the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Ability, Picture Completion, and Block Design from the WISC-R did not differ across groups. Picture Arrangement and Object Assembly from WISC-R showed differences between migrants and Australians but not between dyslex…
Individual differences in life‐style response to coronary artery bypass surgery
Fifty‐three patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass surgery 12 to 27 months previously were given four standard personality questionnaires and asked to write about the main effects the operation had on their life‐styles. These responses were then content analysed. Although hierarchical grouping analysis indicated that the responses could best be classified into four groups, only three distinct response profiles emerged. The first group …
Some Characteristics of Charismatic Experience
Content analysis and subsequent profile analysis of 120 letters received in response to an appeal published in Australian newspapers for views on the experience of glossolalia yielded six distinct groups. Group I (N = 29) involved non-crisis experiences, glossolalia in private, belief in the experience as confirming baptism in the Spirit; Group II (N = 14) involved crisis experience, experienced glossolalia in a group setting and held a belief th…
Visual Processing of Straight Lines in Dyslexic and Normal Children
S ummary . Separation thresholds for groups of 26 dyslexic and normal children attending the first year of secondary school were obtained with pairs of identically‐oriented and spatially‐overlapping straight lines presented at orientations varying from zero to 90 degrees. The dyslexics as a group had about 10 to 15 msec longer separation times than normals. In a second experiment single straight line contours were preceded by an homogeneous light…
The Processing of Digits by Children With Specific Reading Disability (Dyslexia)
S ummary . The present study compared the processing of single digits by two groups of 20 dyslexic children with a control group. A single digit (0 through 9) was presented for 20 msec followed by a mask for 20 msec at ISIs of 8, 16, 24, 32 or 40 msec. Both dyslexic groups had significantly more correct identifications than the control group, but did not differ from the control group in their reaction time. Analysis of error patterns showed that …
Some australian data on the short version of the attitudes to women scale (AWS)
A Comparison of Dyslexics and Normals in Recalling Letter Arrays After Brief Presentation
S ummary . The study was designed to examine differences in the performance of dyslexic and normal children in the recall of letter arrays which were presented for varying durations. Thirty‐three dyslexic and 33 normal children aged between 8 and 12 years were recruited for the study. The results show significant differences in the level of performance rather than differences in kind of visual information processing and would support the notion o…
A factorial study of Eysenck and Eysenck's psychoticism, extroversion, and neuroticism scales
Eysenck and Eysenck (1968a, b) reported the results of a series of factorial studies designed to isolate a third dimension of personality, “psychoticism” (P), which was hypothesized to be independent of their two previously identified personality dimensions, extraversion (E) and neuroticism (N). Their main analysis, carried out on 106 carefully constructed items produced three factors identified as E, N, and P. They concluded that their data supp…
Self-Disclosure and Neuroticism
Personality and Attitude Correlates of Religious Conversion
IT has been shown in a number of studies.that about thirty percent of religious people report a more or less sudden experience, while the others become gradually more religious as a result of social influences.' Religious has often been considered to be, caused by a type of temporary neurotic condition, resolution of which results in the establishment of a new life . Definitions of the term conversion generally emphasize this aspect, e. g
Measurement of stress and arousal
It is suggested that, although often confounded, the mood states of stress and arousal may be independent, and that they may have different psychological consequences. The present investigation demonstrated the ability of a stress/arousal adjective checklist to differentiate between groups of people subject to different potentially stressful situations. The results are interpreted as suggesting that two distinct responses to a perceived demand ar…
Some australian data on the short version of the attitudes to women scale (AWS)
Individual differences in life‐style response to coronary artery bypass surgery
Fifty‐three patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass surgery 12 to 27 months previously were given four standard personality questionnaires and asked to write about the main effects the operation had on their life‐styles. These responses were then content analysed. Although hierarchical grouping analysis indicated that the responses could best be classified into four groups, only three distinct response profiles emerged. The first group …
Personality and Attitude Correlates of Religious Conversion
IT has been shown in a number of studies.that about thirty percent of religious people report a more or less sudden experience, while the others become gradually more religious as a result of social influences.' Religious has often been considered to be, caused by a type of temporary neurotic condition, resolution of which results in the establishment of a new life . Definitions of the term conversion generally emphasize this aspect, e. g
Eye‐movements and sequential tracking in dyslexic and control children
The efficiency of eye‐movements while tracking sequential lights was compared for 15 dyslexic children and 15 controls, matched on age and non‐verbal intelligence. Contrary to Pavlidis (1981), no significant differences were found between the two groups on two measures of efficiency. A hierarchical cluster analysis did not demonstrate unique patterns of errors for dyslexics, with the exception of a single female dyslexic
Some Characteristics of Charismatic Experience
Content analysis and subsequent profile analysis of 120 letters received in response to an appeal published in Australian newspapers for views on the experience of glossolalia yielded six distinct groups. Group I (N = 29) involved non-crisis experiences, glossolalia in private, belief in the experience as confirming baptism in the Spirit; Group II (N = 14) involved crisis experience, experienced glossolalia in a group setting and held a belief th…
Visual Processing of Straight Lines in Dyslexic and Normal Children
S ummary . Separation thresholds for groups of 26 dyslexic and normal children attending the first year of secondary school were obtained with pairs of identically‐oriented and spatially‐overlapping straight lines presented at orientations varying from zero to 90 degrees. The dyslexics as a group had about 10 to 15 msec longer separation times than normals. In a second experiment single straight line contours were preceded by an homogeneous light…
Personality and Attitude Correlates of Religious Conversion
IT has been shown in a number of studies.that about thirty percent of religious people report a more or less sudden experience, while the others become gradually more religious as a result of social influences.' Religious has often been considered to be, caused by a type of temporary neurotic condition, resolution of which results in the establishment of a new life . Definitions of the term conversion generally emphasize this aspect, e. g
Self-Disclosure and Neuroticism
A factorial study of Eysenck and Eysenck's psychoticism, extroversion, and neuroticism scales
Eysenck and Eysenck (1968a, b) reported the results of a series of factorial studies designed to isolate a third dimension of personality, “psychoticism” (P), which was hypothesized to be independent of their two previously identified personality dimensions, extraversion (E) and neuroticism (N). Their main analysis, carried out on 106 carefully constructed items produced three factors identified as E, N, and P. They concluded that their data supp…
A Comparison of Dyslexics and Normals in Recalling Letter Arrays After Brief Presentation
S ummary . The study was designed to examine differences in the performance of dyslexic and normal children in the recall of letter arrays which were presented for varying durations. Thirty‐three dyslexic and 33 normal children aged between 8 and 12 years were recruited for the study. The results show significant differences in the level of performance rather than differences in kind of visual information processing and would support the notion o…
Some australian data on the short version of the attitudes to women scale (AWS)
Visual Processing of Straight Lines in Dyslexic and Normal Children
S ummary . Separation thresholds for groups of 26 dyslexic and normal children attending the first year of secondary school were obtained with pairs of identically‐oriented and spatially‐overlapping straight lines presented at orientations varying from zero to 90 degrees. The dyslexics as a group had about 10 to 15 msec longer separation times than normals. In a second experiment single straight line contours were preceded by an homogeneous light…
The Processing of Digits by Children With Specific Reading Disability (Dyslexia)
S ummary . The present study compared the processing of single digits by two groups of 20 dyslexic children with a control group. A single digit (0 through 9) was presented for 20 msec followed by a mask for 20 msec at ISIs of 8, 16, 24, 32 or 40 msec. Both dyslexic groups had significantly more correct identifications than the control group, but did not differ from the control group in their reaction time. Analysis of error patterns showed that …
Some Characteristics of Charismatic Experience
Content analysis and subsequent profile analysis of 120 letters received in response to an appeal published in Australian newspapers for views on the experience of glossolalia yielded six distinct groups. Group I (N = 29) involved non-crisis experiences, glossolalia in private, belief in the experience as confirming baptism in the Spirit; Group II (N = 14) involved crisis experience, experienced glossolalia in a group setting and held a belief th…
Individual differences in life‐style response to coronary artery bypass surgery
Fifty‐three patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass surgery 12 to 27 months previously were given four standard personality questionnaires and asked to write about the main effects the operation had on their life‐styles. These responses were then content analysed. Although hierarchical grouping analysis indicated that the responses could best be classified into four groups, only three distinct response profiles emerged. The first group …
Selecting Intelligence Tests for Studies of Dyslexic Children
Teachers were asked to select control children of comparable general ability to dyslexic children in their classes and differences between these two groups were examined. Manual Expression from the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Ability, Picture Completion, and Block Design from the WISC-R did not differ across groups. Picture Arrangement and Object Assembly from WISC-R showed differences between migrants and Australians but not between dyslex…
Eye‐movements in dyslexic children
One of the difficulties facing any attempt to investigate a research finding is to know what effect certain differences in procedure or equipment will have on the result. Our previous attempt at looking at non‐reading eye‐movements in developmental dyslexics (Stanley, 1978) produced essentially the same results as another research group (Adler‐Grinberg & Stark, 1978), despite considerable differences in procedure and equipment. With respect to Pa…
Eye‐movements and sequential tracking in dyslexic and control children
The efficiency of eye‐movements while tracking sequential lights was compared for 15 dyslexic children and 15 controls, matched on age and non‐verbal intelligence. Contrary to Pavlidis (1981), no significant differences were found between the two groups on two measures of efficiency. A hierarchical cluster analysis did not demonstrate unique patterns of errors for dyslexics, with the exception of a single female dyslexic
Measurement of stress and arousal
It is suggested that, although often confounded, the mood states of stress and arousal may be independent, and that they may have different psychological consequences. The present investigation demonstrated the ability of a stress/arousal adjective checklist to differentiate between groups of people subject to different potentially stressful situations. The results are interpreted as suggesting that two distinct responses to a perceived demand ar…
Stress and arousal during pregnancy and childbirth
Sixty primigravidae were assessed on the short form of the Stress‐Arousal Adjective Check List (SACL) at the commencement of the third trimester of pregnancy. Fifty‐four of these were also administered the SACL in the labour ward and at three days after birth. On the first assessment the mean levels for the group of mothers were above normative levels of stress but not normative levels of arousal. In labour there was a significant increase in str…
Analogue measurement of dental fear
Reliability and validity data are presented for the dental fear thermometer, an analogue scale of dental fear. Test-retest reliability over approximately two months was 0.78. Correlations with the Corah, Gale, and Illig (1978) Dental Anxiety Scale and with estimates of dental fear made by dentists were 0.61 and 0.49 respectively. Therapy produced a significant reduction in the mean fear thermometer score for a group of dental phobics. Horizontal …
Diagnostic and treatment comparisons of patients presenting at psychiatric emergency centres
This study compares profiles of patients presenting at psychiatric emergency centres based in general hospitals in Australia (Melbourne), America (Boston), and in the United Kingdom (Bristol). Although the distributions of psychiatric emergencies at the three hospitals appeared to be similar, the Melbourne centre had the largest proportion of patients being referred for outpatient treatment. The data suggests a difference in the delivery of servi…
Rose-coloured spectacles
Dyslexia, or specific reading disability, is one of the more puzzling aspects of human development. It is a condition, often ill-defined, which has no agreed cause. This paper examines the evidence for the Irlen lens treatment for dyslexia. The theory behind the practice is rejected on the grounds of imprecision, inaccuracy, and inconsistency with other knowledge about dyslexia. The empirical evidence is found wanting in terms of clear results fr…
Selecting Student Analog Samples
The use of student analog samples in research may produce low external validity given unintended but perceived coercion on the part of students when the researcher is also their teacher. Using a scale that measured dental fear, analysis showed no significant difference for ‘known’ compared to ‘unknown’ students. The students unknown to the researcher had a lower response rate. Of those who did comply with the request, some were tardy in respondin…
Ability profiles of learning disabled children
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) profiles of 156 male and 52 female children presenting with learning disability at a hospital clinic for learning disabled children were cluster analysed yielding a five-group solution. Similarities were observed between these subtypes and those commonly reported in the literature. However, when the profiles of these subtypes were reordered in terms of Bannatyne's (1968) categories, three distin…
Origins of Neuropsychology Research and Teaching at the University of Melbourne, Australia
The University of Melbourne hosts a well-known graduate training program in clinical neuropsychology, which was the first formal training program in neuropsychology established in Australia. What is less well known is that neuropsychology research has a much longer history at the University of Melbourne, beginning in the second decade of the 20th century. This chapter briefly traces the early history, which centered on collaborations between staf…
Psychology (18 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Dyslexia (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Personality (5 works) · Reading (process) (5 works)