Word: polygraph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Volunteer subjects were trained to go into hypnosis easily and deeply. After they were thoroughly familiar with the nature of the trance state, they met Shor for the first time. The subjects were then placed on an apparatus called a polygraph, an amazing device built by Bernard Tursky, and developed at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. The polygraph measures the changes in perspiration, heart rate, respiration, and muscle tension...
...anxiety they might have, that they would be given electric shocks. Each subject was asked to take a shock that was highly painful, but he was allowed his own level of shock, which then remained constant in the rest of the experiment.5Subject HARRIET MILLER is placed in the polygraph apparatus. This machine was used to record data for DR. RONALD E. SHOR on the physiological responses to pain while under hypnosis...
...button. On a viewing screen, up pops a question, such as "Do you suffer from shortness of breath?" The patient thinks he does, so he presses another button marked "Yes." The machine records this, and his yes or no answers to a hundred other questions. From the electrodes, a polygraph ("lie detector") notes which questions pack a heavy emotional charge for him. The machine produces a printed and punched, easy-to-read case history...