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...down what they thought they had heard, which often had no relation to what had actually been spoken on the tape. This occurrence was not strange in itself; however, what was curious was that a number of girls would write the same "wild" answer, often a proper name. Intrigued, Cramer has begun work on "auditory Rorschach tests," in which he deletes such large segments of the taped speech that whole syllables are missing. The subject must then reconstruct entire sentences, in an ambiguous context that closely parallels a Rorschach inkblot...
...Cramer has devised an alternate test to discover psychological problems. A student will, through earphones, hear the same story told in both ears. At a crucial point in the narrative, the left ear will hear one word, while the right will hear another word of equal length. For example, in a story about a man and a woman, the important pair of words might be "he killed/kissed her." It has been proven that the student's mind will subconsciously choose to record only one of the words; which one is chosen becomes the psychologist's problem...
...variation of this technique may be practicable in a new type of occupational test, Cramer feels: one that will increase a student's chance of discovering his true interests, divorced from external pressures that may have been exerted upon him. Instead of hearing a story through his earphones, the student will hear a succession of pairs of words -- for instance, stethoscope/habeas corpus -- and his subconscious will choose the one he will remember. In current aptitude tests, in which the student is given a set of questions and multiple-choice answers and will have time to consider the ramifications...
Certain branches of the Government have picked up techniques like Cramer's. The Air Force, for instance, will employ his findings to delay speech in one ear for pilots and control tower operators who must communicate through noise interference. Cramer has discovered that a listener tends, as he hears another person speak to latch on to certain tonal qualities in the speaker's voice. As he listens, he will be able to hear and comprehend what the person is saying even through noise interference. With this in mind, instead of speeding speech to save time, Cramer has developed a process...
Among the many future uses that Cramer envisions for speeded speech is "auditory speed reading." In the Harvard Remedial Reading course the addition of a sound track has been proposed to complement the movies