Benjamin Wallace
Biographic Data
| ID | 5683314 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Wallace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallace |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cleveland State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 32 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1921 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Day persons, night persons, and variability in hypnotic susceptibility
Day persons (those most alert during daytime hours) and night persons participated in 2 experiments to examine within-subject variability of scores over time on the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A, and the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C. Regardless of scale used, day persons exhibited peak susceptibility at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.; for night persons, peak susceptibility was found at 1 p.m. and between 6 p.m. and …
Imagery vividness, hypnotic susceptibility, and the perception of fragmented stimuli
Two experiments were conducted to determine the role of hypnotic susceptibility level (high or low) and imaging ability (vivid or poor) in the performance of gestalt closure tasks. In Experiment 1, subjects were required to identify fragmented stimuli in the Closure Speed Test and in the Street Test. In Experiment 2, subjects reported on fragmented stimuli that were projected to the right eye and subsequently produced an afterimage. Individuals w…
Improving Cognitive Search Skills in Resistant Hypnotic Subjects
Subjects who were resistant (n = 20) and susceptible (n = 20) to hypnotic suggestion were asked to find the letter Z in an array of other straight-form letters. Susceptibles found the letter more quickly than resistants, and this superiority appeared to be related to their use of a more efficient search strategy. When resistants were taught this strategy, their performance was not significantly different from that of susceptibles. Implications of…
Hypnotic Susceptibility and Familial Handedness
The possible relationship between hypnotic susceptibility and familiar handedness was examined. In a mass-testing session of students enrolled in introductory psychology classes, subjects were administered the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A and were also required to complete a questionnaire that ascertained information on their dominant handedness and that of their immediate family relatives. Subjects who had immediate sin…
Hypnotic Susceptibility, Visual Distraction, and Reports of Necker Cube Apparent Reversals
Subjects, either susceptible (n = 50) or resistant (n = 50) to hypnotic suggestion, were asked to report on frequency of apparent reversals (ARs) to the Necker cube illusion. Such reports were made in the presence or absence of various types of visual, geometric surrounds (squares, triangles, crosses, or parallelograms). In agreement with a number of previous experiments, susceptible subjects reported perceiving more ARs than did resistant subjec…
Latency and Frequency Reports to the Necker Cube Illusion
An experiment (N = 32) was conducted to assess latency of first apparent reversal (AR) and AR frequency while observing the Necker cube illusion. Subjects who were either high in hypnotic susceptibility (susceptibles) or low in hypnotic susceptibility (resistant subjects) observed the cube either while performing or not performing mental addition problems. Susceptibles reported perceiving the first AR more quickly and a greater frequency of ARs t…
Hypnotic Susceptibility, Interference, and Alternation Frequency to the Necker Cube Illusion
Two experiments (N = 60) were conducted to determine the effects of hypnotic susceptibility and interference on frequency of Necker cube apparent reversals (ARs). Interference was induced in Experiment 1 by having subjects respond to orally administered double-digit arithmetic (addition) problems while observing the Necker cube. In Experiment 2, counting backward by 3s served as interference. In both experiments, interference reduced ARs. Hypnoti…
Hypnotic susceptibility and performance on various attention-specific cognitive tasks
We conducted two experiments to investigate cognitive performance as related to level of hypnotic susceptibility. In Experiment 1 time-to-location of a target in a visual search task was assessed. For this task the letter Z was embedded either within straight-form or round-form letters. Results indicated that high-hypnotic-susceptibility subjects (highs) were significantly faster than low-susceptibility-subjects (lows) in locating the embedded le…
The Roles of Target and Eye Motion in the Production of the Visual Shift in Prism Adaptation
Two experiments, with a total of 48 Ss, were performed to evaluate the possible determinants of the visual shift (VS) in prism adaptation. In Experiment 1 the effects of target movement and pursuit eye movements on resultant visual adaptation were investigated. Maximal VS was produced when both of these conditions were present. Experiment 2 was conducted to determine whether hypnotic anesthesia in and around the eyes and eye muscles reduces feedb…
Illusory Changes in a Sound Source and Outflow Theory
Two experiments, with a total of 220 Ss, were conducted to investigate the possibility of illusory movement of a sound source. In Experiment 1 intensity level (from 10 to 60 db SPL) and frequency of an auditory sound (from 1000 to 5000 Hz) were varied while the Ss head was stabilized with a head rest; in Experiment 2, intensity and frequency were also varied while the S's head was free to move. When head position was fixed, error signal variables…
Sex Differences in the Perception of Autokinetic Movement of an afterimage
The effects of stimulus color and gender upon the perception of an afterimage were examined. The Ss were 32 male and 32 female college undergraduate volunteers. Eight Ss of each gender viewed a pinpoint flash of light through one of four filters: blue-green (Wratten 44A), red (Wratten 92), yellow (Wratten 9), or a neutral (Wratten 96) filter. Each S was given three trials, and on each trial, the duration of the afterimage was recorded, along with…
Effects of Stimulus Size, Intensity, Color, and Eye Strain on Autokinetic Movement
In two experiments, with a total of 116 male and female undergraduate S s, predictions were tested from the following hypothesized explanation of autokinetic movement (AKM): undetected eye drifts lead to movement of the AKM target across the retina; this movement or error signal leads to the initiation of a cancelling response, and the AKM is directly due to CNS monitoring of the efferent responses or signals sent to the eye muscles with subseque…
Autokinetic Movement of an Induced Afterimage
Thirty-two female Ss participated in an experiment in which autokinetic movement (AKM) direction change frequency of an induced afterimage was assessed as a function of stimulus afterimage color (yellow or blue-green) and the presence or absence of eye strain. Afterimage color was found not to affect AKM frequency reports. However, eye strain significantly (p <. 002) affected such reports, with the fewest AKM direction changes reported when strai…
Prismatically Induced Eye Strain and Autokinetic Direction Frequency
Autokinetic movement (AKM) as assessed by number of reported direction changes was evaluated for 25 college sophomores as a function of prism displacement strength. The results indicated that the strain on the eye muscles produced by prism displacement significantly affected frequency of direction change reports: the greater the displacement, the fewer the number of reported direction changes. These results were interpreted according to outflow t…
Effect of cognitive set on color perception
Ten Years of Controlled Trade in South-eastern Europe . N. Momtchiloff
How the United States “Led the League” in 1931
Many times we have been told that the United States led the League in dealing with the Manchurian Affair of 1931. The statement is essentially false, but contains an element of truth in that the League did defer to the United States. It recognized that it could accomplish nothing in the Far East without American support and played for that support, but without getting it at the critical points. The United States Government did not lead—rather it …
Congress—Problem, Diagnosis, Proposals
The problem with which your Committee has been concerned since its appointment early in 1941 is the place of Congress in the American scheme of government under the emergency conditions of peace and war that have prevailed during the past decade. We have asked ourselves such questions as these: 1. What changes have taken place in the relations between Congress and the Executive? Why? Has there been in fact any surrender of power and responsibilit…
Research in International Economics by Federal Agencies . Sanford Schwarz
The Reconstruction of World Trade
The Colonial Problem
The Problem of Peaceful Change in the Pacific Area
Morocco as a French Economic Venture
The Colonial Problem
American Diplomacy
Prismatically Induced Eye Strain and Autokinetic Direction Frequency
Autokinetic movement (AKM) as assessed by number of reported direction changes was evaluated for 25 college sophomores as a function of prism displacement strength. The results indicated that the strain on the eye muscles produced by prism displacement significantly affected frequency of direction change reports: the greater the displacement, the fewer the number of reported direction changes. These results were interpreted according to outflow t…
Latency and Frequency Reports to the Necker Cube Illusion
An experiment (N = 32) was conducted to assess latency of first apparent reversal (AR) and AR frequency while observing the Necker cube illusion. Subjects who were either high in hypnotic susceptibility (susceptibles) or low in hypnotic susceptibility (resistant subjects) observed the cube either while performing or not performing mental addition problems. Susceptibles reported perceiving the first AR more quickly and a greater frequency of ARs t…
Hypnotic Susceptibility, Interference, and Alternation Frequency to the Necker Cube Illusion
Two experiments (N = 60) were conducted to determine the effects of hypnotic susceptibility and interference on frequency of Necker cube apparent reversals (ARs). Interference was induced in Experiment 1 by having subjects respond to orally administered double-digit arithmetic (addition) problems while observing the Necker cube. In Experiment 2, counting backward by 3s served as interference. In both experiments, interference reduced ARs. Hypnoti…
Sex Differences in the Perception of Autokinetic Movement of an afterimage
The effects of stimulus color and gender upon the perception of an afterimage were examined. The Ss were 32 male and 32 female college undergraduate volunteers. Eight Ss of each gender viewed a pinpoint flash of light through one of four filters: blue-green (Wratten 44A), red (Wratten 92), yellow (Wratten 9), or a neutral (Wratten 96) filter. Each S was given three trials, and on each trial, the duration of the afterimage was recorded, along with…
Autokinetic Movement of an Induced Afterimage
Thirty-two female Ss participated in an experiment in which autokinetic movement (AKM) direction change frequency of an induced afterimage was assessed as a function of stimulus afterimage color (yellow or blue-green) and the presence or absence of eye strain. Afterimage color was found not to affect AKM frequency reports. However, eye strain significantly (p <. 002) affected such reports, with the fewest AKM direction changes reported when strai…
Tariff Bargaining
European Tariff Policies Since the World War . Ottavio Delle-Donne
Post- War Tariff Changes and Tendencies
Preferential Tariffs and the Open Door
European Tariff Policies Since the World War . Ottavio Delle-Donne
International Economic Relations . John Donaldson
The Case for a Flexible Tariff
Tariff Bargaining
The Strategy of Raw Materials
American Diplomacy
The Problem of Peaceful Change in the Pacific Area
Morocco as a French Economic Venture
The Colonial Problem
The Colonial Problem
Research in International Economics by Federal Agencies . Sanford Schwarz
The Reconstruction of World Trade
Congress—Problem, Diagnosis, Proposals
The problem with which your Committee has been concerned since its appointment early in 1941 is the place of Congress in the American scheme of government under the emergency conditions of peace and war that have prevailed during the past decade. We have asked ourselves such questions as these: 1. What changes have taken place in the relations between Congress and the Executive? Why? Has there been in fact any surrender of power and responsibilit…
How the United States “Led the League” in 1931
Many times we have been told that the United States led the League in dealing with the Manchurian Affair of 1931. The statement is essentially false, but contains an element of truth in that the League did defer to the United States. It recognized that it could accomplish nothing in the Far East without American support and played for that support, but without getting it at the critical points. The United States Government did not lead—rather it …
Ten Years of Controlled Trade in South-eastern Europe . N. Momtchiloff
Effect of cognitive set on color perception
Effects of Stimulus Size, Intensity, Color, and Eye Strain on Autokinetic Movement
In two experiments, with a total of 116 male and female undergraduate S s, predictions were tested from the following hypothesized explanation of autokinetic movement (AKM): undetected eye drifts lead to movement of the AKM target across the retina; this movement or error signal leads to the initiation of a cancelling response, and the AKM is directly due to CNS monitoring of the efferent responses or signals sent to the eye muscles with subseque…
Autokinetic Movement of an Induced Afterimage
Thirty-two female Ss participated in an experiment in which autokinetic movement (AKM) direction change frequency of an induced afterimage was assessed as a function of stimulus afterimage color (yellow or blue-green) and the presence or absence of eye strain. Afterimage color was found not to affect AKM frequency reports. However, eye strain significantly (p <. 002) affected such reports, with the fewest AKM direction changes reported when strai…
Prismatically Induced Eye Strain and Autokinetic Direction Frequency
Autokinetic movement (AKM) as assessed by number of reported direction changes was evaluated for 25 college sophomores as a function of prism displacement strength. The results indicated that the strain on the eye muscles produced by prism displacement significantly affected frequency of direction change reports: the greater the displacement, the fewer the number of reported direction changes. These results were interpreted according to outflow t…
Sex Differences in the Perception of Autokinetic Movement of an afterimage
The effects of stimulus color and gender upon the perception of an afterimage were examined. The Ss were 32 male and 32 female college undergraduate volunteers. Eight Ss of each gender viewed a pinpoint flash of light through one of four filters: blue-green (Wratten 44A), red (Wratten 92), yellow (Wratten 9), or a neutral (Wratten 96) filter. Each S was given three trials, and on each trial, the duration of the afterimage was recorded, along with…
Illusory Changes in a Sound Source and Outflow Theory
Two experiments, with a total of 220 Ss, were conducted to investigate the possibility of illusory movement of a sound source. In Experiment 1 intensity level (from 10 to 60 db SPL) and frequency of an auditory sound (from 1000 to 5000 Hz) were varied while the Ss head was stabilized with a head rest; in Experiment 2, intensity and frequency were also varied while the S's head was free to move. When head position was fixed, error signal variables…
Hypnotic susceptibility and performance on various attention-specific cognitive tasks
We conducted two experiments to investigate cognitive performance as related to level of hypnotic susceptibility. In Experiment 1 time-to-location of a target in a visual search task was assessed. For this task the letter Z was embedded either within straight-form or round-form letters. Results indicated that high-hypnotic-susceptibility subjects (highs) were significantly faster than low-susceptibility-subjects (lows) in locating the embedded le…
The Roles of Target and Eye Motion in the Production of the Visual Shift in Prism Adaptation
Two experiments, with a total of 48 Ss, were performed to evaluate the possible determinants of the visual shift (VS) in prism adaptation. In Experiment 1 the effects of target movement and pursuit eye movements on resultant visual adaptation were investigated. Maximal VS was produced when both of these conditions were present. Experiment 2 was conducted to determine whether hypnotic anesthesia in and around the eyes and eye muscles reduces feedb…
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