PAS Seminar Session 8 - Interpreting DSY and the Fourth Dimension Part 1 - Fourth Dimension

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4th Dimension

John Gittinger and DSY/Activity level - not precise - an intuitive sense
that there is something else that modifies the whole 
thing - sometimes even if activity levels the same.

Sometimes called 4th dimension (Mike Heyman called it the "banana")

Primarily comes from David Saunders
Heyman and Krauskopf working with Saunders
Couchon has given a lot of 4th dimension and had intuitive sense

Bob: Some use clinically

This presentation is as Bob understands it - others may differ

Two more tasks:
Stroop color naming task. Published in a Sunday Supplement long ago
  Ended up subject of a lot of research.
  Saunders modified: put all pieces as one.
    Subject to say color if printed in color. If printed black, read word.
    Added black
  Perceptual interference task
    Reading tends to be more over-learned than colors
  Saunders: Tests how well people function under the stress.
Translate time to standard score 1-18

Time estimation. Many kinds of time estimation. This one is
  immediate short intervals: 5 to 30 seconds. 

Some people cannot (not count) - that's why directions only say
  don't do external counting (tapping)
  People who cannot not count are usually pretty close

This has to do with how people deal with immediacy of situation

Saunders takes combinations and does factor analysis.
  Looks for people who go together.
  This is how he got reference groups.
  Started with 72, then 90. Now 120 reference groups.