Word: stimuli
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...went to the taping of the Crimson's appearance with the Yalie Daily on College Bowl and then watched the program the next day. What flashed by on the television screen was a competitive event in which points and camera exposure were gained by making prescribed responses to specified stimuli. For those in the studio the situation also had an us-against-them tenor, but our opponents were not the so-called Daily News team. The real enemies were the show's producers, the television functionaries who might better be called the Emotion Control Meanies...
...Total lack of response to external stimuli, even the most painful that can ethically be applied...
...compensate for Enderby's isolationism by stressing his integrity--Enderby is loyal to the lord he has chosen, his own neurosis-ridden mind and body. He serves them without question and by some automatic leveling process molds the outside world to a non-threatening mass of only occasionally active stimuli...
...bread box and weighs only 28 lbs. It can be wheeled into a factory or installed in an out-patient ward, plugged into any standard electrical socket, and can handle as many as 20 subjects an hour. To achieve this simplicity and speed, the machine records only five electrical stimuli per heartbeat, as against the standard machine's 13. These five are sufficient for basic screening. Since what is adjudged normal in an ECG varies with the subject's age, early models of the analyzer were set for use on only the age bracket of the volunteers being...
...committee is composed of faculty members, students, a doctor, a lawyer, a Cambridge City Planner, and two UHS administrators. All experimenters using human subjects are required to submit their proposals to this committee. Some decisions are clearly determined by FAS guidelines--especially those which involve the use of "physical stimuli, in abnormal amounts," the ingestion of toxic materials, or illegal drugs. But the majority of the cases are not so clearcut. The committee sizes up the issues, and makes its judgement...