while simultaneously performing a random-letter-generation task that was assumed to use conscious attentional resources. Explicit training consisted of the individuals following a detailed set of instructions on skilled putting.Masters (1992)found performance between the last training session and the experim...
By contrast, many first-timers show emotional relief when they start therapy because their strong feelings are finally getting addressed. 2. "A therapist can't help me, and in fact, nobody can." Granted, therapists are human and have their limitations, both personal and profession...
for which an upturned glass tumbler was used, on which two fingers of the right hand were laid, moved quick as lightning from letter to letter. (slips of paper, marked with letter and numbers, had been arranged in a circle round the glass.) it was communicated that the "medium's" ...
When I walked through the thick steel front door, I was asked to present my credentials and authorization letter from an attorney. The correction officers on duty had me empty my pockets, searched me with metal detectors, and finally led me through a maze of corridors. As each metal door ...
While he’s performing at the children’s hospital, Arthur is sloppy. The newly acquired gun drops out of his clown pants and hits the ground in plain sight and is immediately fired. Following his termination is a chain of negative events creating significant loss and disruption in Arthur’s...
He came to this result, that, first of all, groups of distinct points were the only suitable means of establishing letter-signs that could be easily distinguished, and that, secondly, not more than six definite points were to be used for one letter. ...
may be different from the period during which deprivation may be effective, which may also be different from the period during which treatment is effective.1,4Lewis and Maurer1suggested this, and indicated that grating acuity is adult-like by 4-6 years and letter acuity by 6 years of age....
Society. He had written a letter introducing himself to Michael Balint in 1958. Balint’s book, The Doctor, the Patientand the Illness had come to Chapman’s attention. He wanted to congratulateBalint and tell him about his own research into the incidence of neurotic illness inMedical ...
The appearance of the letter or word indicates a new suggestion; some sort of association is involuntarily joined to it, which is then realised. Remarkably enough, these are not generally the conscious associations, but quite unexpected ones, a circumstance showing that a considerable part of the...
When she told her manager about her depression and that she was in treatment, the manager made vague compassionate noises, but never followed up or even asked my friend how she was doing . Instead, she put my friend on probation at work, threatening her with termination if she didn’t ...