| 单词 | verbal summator |
| 释义 | > as lemmasverbal summator 2. Psychology. More fully verbal summator. A device used to deliver repeated sequences of word-like sounds to a listener who is encouraged to interpret them as meaningful speech. Now historical.This device was often used in testing supposed to reveal subconscious elements of personality. ΚΠ 1936 B. F. Skinner in Jrnl. Psychol. 2 71 The verbal summator is a device for repeating arbitrary samples of speech obtained by permuting and combining certain elemental speech-sounds. 1950 F. S. Keller & W. N. Schoenfeld Princ. Psychol. xi. 395 When normal persons are compared with mental hospital patients gross differences appear in their responses to the summator. 1991 J. C. Malone Theories of Learning viii. 255/1 Skinner invented an ‘auditory Rorschach’ in the form of the verbal summator. 2008 Inter. Jrnl. Psychol. & Psychol. Therapy 8 277 He [sc. Skinner] collected data on verbal phenomena, including sequential patterning in poetry, guessing, and multiple causation as tapped by a device he called the verbal summator. < as lemmas |
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