Cheves Perky

Cheves Perky: Mary Cheves West Perky (1874–1940) was an American psychologist who studied under Edward B. Titchener at Cornell University. In 1910, she performed the "Banana Experiment", which led to the discovery of the Perky effect.^[1]

Perky also studied the cooperative movement, and became the Associate Secretary of the Cooperative League of America.^[2]

References

^ Perky experiment at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

^ 1917 American Year Book, via Google Books

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Name Perky, Cheves

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Date of birth 1874

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Date of death 1940

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Perky phenomenon — Also known as Perky effect. Both eponyms refer to the American psychologist Cheves West Perky (1874 1940). They refer to the phenomenon of mistaking a sensory percept for a product of the imagination. The phenomenon was first reported by Perky … Dictionary of Hallucinations
hypnotically induced hallucination — Also referred to as hypnotic hallucination and induced hallucination. The first two terms refer to the notion of hypnosis, which is in turn indebted to the Greek noun hupnos (sleep). The term hypnotically induced hallucination is used to… … Dictionary of Hallucinations

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