The temporal consistency for 23 Rorschach variables was examined in an 8-year longitudinal study which involved testing 57 subjects at 24-month intervals, beginning when the subjects were age 8 and administering the fourth retest when they were age 16. The objective was to compare these data with norms for the various age groups and to study the features of development as manifest in the Rorsch...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to study the effects of meditation on stress-induced changes in cognitive functions. METHODS The study was conducted on 32 healthy adult male student volunteers who had never practiced meditation before the study. The study consisted of practicing 20 minutes of guided meditation and administration of psychologic stress to the subjects. The psychologi...

To examine retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) in schizophrenia, subjects studied category-exemplar words taken from either strong or weak categories, and then practiced retrieval by completing category word-stems on half of the word pairs. Patients had reduced recall and recognition, but showed the expected RIF effect of better recall of unpracticed items from unpracticed categories than for un...

the aim of this study was to determine the probable relationship of failure and success with self-efficacy expectations in learning shooting skill. the subjects were 63 physical education students of urmia university who were assigned to two experimental and one control group. the subjects received training in air-rifle shooting for one day and practiced it for three days. at the end of each pr...

Objectives: The objective of this study was to study the effects of meditation on stress-induced changes in cognitive functions. Methods: The study was conducted on 32 healthy adult male student volunteers who had never practiced meditation before the study. The study consisted of practicing 20 minutes of guided meditation and administration of psychologic stress to the subjects. The psychologi...