Definition of tachistoscope in English:
tachistoscope
noun taˈkɪstəˌskəʊptəˈkistəˌskōp
An instrument used for exposing objects to the eye for a very brief measured period of time.
Example sentencesExamples
- Participants were asked to look through the central eyepiece of the tachistoscope and fixate their eyes at the central point, following a ready signal.
- We are not programmed to remember lists of numbers or nonwords, presented in isolation via a tachistoscope or a computer screen - the favoured method of ‘studying memory’ in the 1960s and 1970s.
- The test required subjects to determine the identity of nonsense syllables presented in a tachistoscope when, unknown to the subjects, no syllables were present.
- An electronic tachistoscope capable of exposing photographs from 1 ms to 1000 ms was used.
Derivatives
adjectivetakɪstəˌˈskɒpɪk
Hence, for purposes of this study the major pictorial-perceptual elements of each tachistoscopic stimulus were determined.
Example sentencesExamples
- Immediately following a tachistoscopic exposure, the subjects were requested to close their eyes and to report and make drawings of any images that had developed.
- Thereafter, when the handle is released and started downwardly, tachistoscopic operation is initiated.
- Figure 1 shows the mean number of letters correct for each group on the tachistoscopic recognition task.
- The complexity of the stimulus is no longer a limiting factor as with the tachistoscopic technique.
adverb
It is a projective test in which pictures of threatening motifs are presented tachistoscopically in standardised low-lighting conditions.
Example sentencesExamples
- And Fisher found that the visual percepts were not only taken from the tachistoscopically presented stimuli, but also from everything surrounding the experiment, such as paintings in the hallway that the subject saw on the way to the experiment.
- In their study, a sender viewed a target slide 10 times, tachistoscopically for 1 ms each time.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Greek takhistos 'swiftest' + -scope.