Experimental Interference With Reality Contact (Perceptual Isolation)

Goldberger, Leo; Holt, Robert R.

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“…Supporting this restricted motility hypothesis is a significant correlation of .68 between S's immobility and imagery in the Goldberger and Holt (1958) undergraduate group although the correlation was not significant in their actor group (Holt & Goldberger, 1961). Solomon and Mendelson (1962) failed to find differences between RVS and non-RVS Ss on ratings of movement during the experiments.…”

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“…Arnhoff et al (1962) report no RVSs in a 2-day experiment. On the other hand, Goldberger and Holt (1958), Holt and Goldberger (1961), Freedman and Greenblatt (I960), and Zuckerman et al (1962) have reported 30-57% of their 5s giving Type A RVSs within 6-8 hour periods of isolation. Jackson and Kelly (1962) report a high incidence of RVSs in 1 hour of isolation.…”

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Sources of reports of visual and auditory sensations in perceptual-isolation experiments.

Zuckerman

Cohen²

1964

Psychological Bulletin

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The review analyzes the experiments on perceptual isolation with special reference to the phenomena of reported visual and auditory sensations. Variables analyzed include: methods of confinement and restriction, conditions of illumination, duration of isolation, set, instructions and suggestions, reporting or verbalization instructions, sleep, subject populations, prior knowledge and expectations, intelligence and personality characteristics of Ss, stress response, and methods of obtaining reported visual and auditory sensations. The relevance of some of the findings to physiological, psychoanalytic, cognitive, and social psychological theories of perceptual isolation are discussed. Variables which seem important in the phenomena discussed are set, verbalization instructions, S's alertness, and E's methods of obtaining responses. The unexpected reports of hallucinations in the first perceptual-isolation report (Heron, Bexton, & Hebb, 19S3) fascinated clinicians, theoreticians, and experimentalists, and stimulated widespread interest in other responses to isolation. From the reports at symposia

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Sources of reports of visual and auditory sensations in perceptual-isolation experiments.

Zuckerman

Cohen²

1964

Psychological Bulletin

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“…In this report we will present the findings obtained with a group of 16 unemployed actors who served as subjects in an eight hour isolation experiment. This study was undertaken to see whether or not we could replicate the findings of an earlier very similar study (6,9) in which college freshmen were used as subjects and to learn the extent to which the earlier findings could be generalized.…”

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A Comparison of Isolation Effects and Their Personality Correlates in Two Divergent Samples

Goldberger¹,

Holt²

1961

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“…Although no control group was used, Goldberger and Holt (1958) found a decrease in pre-versus post-test performance in log ical deduction.…”

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Processing stimulus variability as a function of motivational state

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Experimental Interference With Reality Contact (Perceptual Isolation)

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Sources of reports of visual and auditory sensations in perceptual-isolation experiments.

Sources of reports of visual and auditory sensations in perceptual-isolation experiments.

A Comparison of Isolation Effects and Their Personality Correlates in Two Divergent Samples

Processing stimulus variability as a function of motivational state

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