A methodological study of confinement /
prepared by Donald W. Ormiston of Behavioral Sciences Laboratory, Aerospace Medical Laboratory.

Description

Main Author

Ormiston, Donald W.

Related Names

United States. Air Force.
Wright Air Development Division

Language(s)

English

Published

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Air Development Division, Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, 1961.

Subjects

Psychology.
Sensory deprivation.
Human behavior.

Summary

Thirty-four subjects divided into two groups were confined for 8 hrs in a lighted 5 by 8 ft cubicle where they worked occasionally on tracking, monitoring, and time estimation tasks and noted somatic complaints. Visual illusions were administered before and after confinement. Twenty subjects in another group underwent all of the tests but were not confined. A battery of personality tests was given to the subjects 1-3 months before they participated. Correlations among the personality test scores, the changes in visual illusions, and the performance tasks were computed. The results of the performance tasks showed no significant differences between the confined and nonconfined groups. Time estimated did not vary significantly during confinement. Confirmatory evidence was gained favoring the use of the spiral after-effect and rejecting and latency of autokinesis as criterion measures of confinement stress.

Note

"Task No. 715582."
"Project No. 7184."
"March 1961"

Physical Description

iii, 21 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

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