ISSN 0439-755X
CN 11-1911/B

›› 1959, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (06): 34-47.

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AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MEMORY DISORDERIN NEURATHENICS

CHANG TSEN-HUI (Institute of Psychology, Academia Sinica)   

  • Published:1959-12-25 Online:1959-12-25

Abstract: This experiment was carried out as a part of the research on the speedy synthetic treatments of neurathenia. The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of the patients' memory disorder by an objective method and to find out the extents of their recoveries after the speedy synthetic treatments. In the experiments, the patients were required to recall and recognize the pictures after presentation for minutes. The patients were also asked about their memory. The result off this study showed that the extents of the patients' memory disorder depended, on the severity of their symptoms of neurathenia. Due to the individual difference in effectiveness of the treatments, after the treatments, different levels of improvement in memory were observed. By strengthening the patients' belief in the effectiveness of the treatments, better effects of the treatments Were obtained.The characteristics of the patients' memory as revealed in this study were: the reduction in the impressibility and the lack of systematization in their memory and the slow down in their reaction to the stimuli presented to them.

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