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The article investigates the hypothesis that increased readiness to respond to the autokinetic effect will result from both social deprivation and sensory deprivation. subjects (Ss) who have experienced both sensory and social deprivation will respond most readily, i.e., give the smallest latency of response when presented with the appropriate stimulus. Ss who have experienced social or sensory deprivation alone will be somewhat less responsive. Ss who have experienced no deprivation will be least responsive to the autokinetic effect. When falsifying information is given, deprived Ss will change their judgments in the autokinetic situation to a greater extent than Ss who have not been deprived. The change in judgments will be greatest for Ss who have experienced both social and sensory deprivation, intermediate for those who have experienced social deprivation only or sensory deprivation only, and least for those who have experienced no deprivation. Conditioning of autokinetic judgments will be most easily achieved for Ss who have experienced both sensory and social deprivation, somewhat less easily achieved for Ss who have experienced social deprivation only or sensory deprivation only, and least easily achieved for Ss who have experienced neither sensory deprivation nor social deprivation.

Discusses the forms and intentions of various literary writings. Authors interpretation on a literary piece; Data on the preface form; Theory of idealism in literature.

Focuses on the account of a sailor's agonized struggle for survival detailed in the book "Pincher Martin," by William Golding. Death of the protagonist on the second page of the novel; Flexibility achieved by the author by telling the story in the third person; Pressures urging a modification of the reader's natural admiration for heroic endurance and resolution.