1970~80年代のわが国の心理学研究における実験機器利用 : 竹井機器工業製造品データベース構築の意義

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Before using personal computers in psychology experiments, we had been using many kindsof apparatuses designed for each experiment. In 1970’s and 1980’s, considerable parts of thoseapparatuses were supplied by Takei Kiki Kogyo Co. Although we would frequently refer to thearticles using those apparatuses, it is becoming to be difficult to get precise information about theapparatuses because almost all of them have been scrapped.In the present research, I construct a database of the apparatuses produced by Takei KikiKogyo Co. in cooperation with the company. While Takei Kiki Kogyo Co. has produced severalthousand kinds of apparatuses, it keeps very small part of them. However, their photos havebeen preserved rather well, using which I construct a database. In the second part of the research,I verified the recorded items with the articles in Japanese Journal of Psychology in which theapparatus was used. In result, I could make sure that almost all apparatuses quoted in the 62articles of JJP from 1969 to 1989 appear in the database. Among the quoted apparatuses, therewere many kinds of trial products which do not appear in catalogues.