Patent No. 3278676 Apparatus for producing visual and auditory stimulation

 Patent No. 3278676  Apparatus for producing visual and auditory stimulation (Becker, Oct 11, 1966)

 

Notes:

The above noted media can be used in various fields of endeavor. As will be appreciated from a more complete consideration of the invention, among the fields to which said invention is best applied, are

(1) medicine, psychiatry and psychology (as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool); 

 

(2) education (as an aid in teaching at all levels and, in particular, as a rehabilitative auxiliary in, for example, juvenile delinquency); 

 

(3) advertising and marketing (as point of sale advertising technique and as mass advertising process); 

 

(4) propaganda and psychological warfare (conditioning civilian and military personnel, enemy aliens, prisoners of war, or opposing forces or civilian population) and to counter “brainwashing.” 

 

(5) enhancement of motion pictures

  

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Gives explanation of three experimental techniques:

1) word association technique;

2) the tachistoscopic technique;

3) the Luria motor technique.

Also explains how subliminal and supraliminal techniques are used.