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Abstract：
The inclusion of private events in the philosophy of our science is integral to avoid dualism and remain objective rather than making assumptions about an unseen mind. However, the inclusion of behaviors and stimuli which cannot be observed in an analysis poses obvious issues. One established method of studying covert behavior is to examine tasks that are presumed to require verbal mediation, and observing how a participant\'s performance is affected when they are required to speak out loud during the task (often called \"blocking\"), again presuming this will make it difficult or impossible to simultaneously talk to yourself covertly. This study investigated the effects of vocal blocking on a sequencing task, or lining things up in a specified order. In one experiment, the items sequenced were abstract line drawings, and a second experiment used differently textured fabric stimuli (or \"tactile cards\"). In the second experiment, participants learned to tact and then sequence the tactile stimuli while they were blindfolded. The effect of vocal blocking on putative covert rehearsal was dissimilar across the two modalities of the experiments. This preliminary study provides insight into the nature of covert behavior as it relates to different senses and opens questions about the generality of studies examining covert mediation.
摘要：
将私人事件纳入我们的科学哲学是避免二元论并保持客观的组成部分，而不是对看不见的头脑做出假设。然而,包含在分析中无法观察到的行为和刺激会带来明显的问题。研究隐蔽行为的一种既定方法是检查假定需要口头调解的任务，并观察参与者的表现如何受到影响，当他们被要求在任务中大声说话（通常称为“阻塞”），再次假设这将使你难以或不可能同时秘密地与自己交谈。这项研究调查了声乐阻断对测序任务的影响，或者按照指定的顺序排列东西。在一个实验中,排序的项目是抽象线条图，第二个实验使用不同纹理的织物刺激（或“触觉卡”）。在第二个实验中,参与者学会了机智，然后在蒙住眼睛的同时对触觉刺激进行排序。在两种实验方式中，声音阻塞对假定的秘密排练的影响是不同的。这项初步研究提供了对隐蔽行为的本质的见解，因为它与不同的感官有关，并提出了有关研究隐蔽调解的一般性的问题。
