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THE EFFECTS OF MEPROBAMATE ON KINESTHETIC FIGURAL AFTER‐EFFECTS
Author(s) -
COSTELLO C. G.
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1962.tb00810.x
Subject(s) - meprobamate , psychology , kinesthetic learning , stimulus (psychology) , extraversion and introversion , audiology , developmental psychology , social psychology , anesthesia , cognitive psychology , big five personality traits , personality , medicine
The effects of 800 mg. meprobamate on kinesthetic figural after‐effects were investigated. There was a tendency for subjects to overestimate the test block width during pre‐stimulation trials. This tendency was found to be negatively correlated with extraversion as measured by the M.P.I. (1959). Meprobamate reduced the tendency of subjects to overestimate the test block width during pre‐stimulation trials and also reduced the size of the figural after‐effects produced by rubbing a stimulus block wider than the test block. Results for ascending and descending trials were analysed separately and the above effects were found only in the case of the descending trials. The effect of the interpolated stimulus block in producing figural after‐effects is discussed in terms of the changing of the frame of reference set up between the test block and comparison block. Extraversion was not significantly correlated with any of the measures of figural after‐effect.