Date of Award
Summer 1981
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Education
Abstract
Does man have the capacity to process environmental. stimulation of such weak magnitude or rapid duration that he is not aware of it? If so, can such minimal stimuli affect man's subsequent behavior? Dixon (1971) and Gordon (l967) presented en overview of early scholarly thought on these questions. Democritus, in 400 B.c., may have been the first to have recorded man's contemplation of subliminal information processing. He stated that "much is perceptible which is not perceived by us" (cited in Dixon, 1971, P.6)...
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