Sensory deprivation (Sendep) or perceptual isolation[1] is the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses. Simple devices such as blindfolds or hoods and earmuffs can cut off sight and hearing, while more complex devices can also cut off the sense of smell, touch, taste, thermoception (heat-sense), and 'gravity'.
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing by Damion Searls. Look at the ink blots and tell me what you see. Itâs how millions of psychological tests have started for the best part of the past century.
They were willing participants in the Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most controversial studies in the history of social psychology. (Itâs the subject of a new film of the same nameâa drama, not a documentaryâstarring Billy Crudup, of âAlmost Famous,â as the lead investigator, Philip Zimbardo.he Stanford Prison Experiment is cited as evidence of the atavistic impulses that lurk within us all; itâs said to show that, with a little nudge, we could all become tyrants. And yet the lessons of the Stanford Prison Experiment arenât so clear-cut. From the beginning, the study has been haunted by ambiguity.