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da Costa, Laura; Remedios, Richard – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2014
Achievement goal theory is one of the most popular theories of achievement motivation. Techniques researchers have used to assess goals include standardized questionnaires and interviews. One curious finding is that participants whose self-report questionnaire responses strongly indicate they operate with a performance goal do not make performance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Questionnaires, Interviews
Grant, Timothy S.; Nathan, Mitchell J. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2008
Confidence intervals are beginning to play an increasing role in the reporting of research findings within the social and behavioral sciences and, consequently, are becoming more prevalent in beginning classes in statistics and research methods. Confidence intervals are an attractive means of conveying experimental results, as they contain a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Intervals, Research Methodology, Figurative Language
Lawrence, Jeanette A.; Browne, Myra A. – 1981
This report describes the cognitive procedures which a group of Australian stipendiary utilize in court to make decisions. The study was based on an assumption that magistrates represent a group of professionals whose work involves making decisions of human significance, and on an assumption that the magistrates' own perceptions of their ways of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Court Judges, Decision Making
Leftwich, James; and others – Psychol Rep, 1969
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Experiments
Lanyon, Richard I. – 1970
This study undertook to reconcile the views of cognitive and behavioral learning theorists on the issue whether learning without awareness (LWA) is possible, and if so, the circumstances under which it occurs. In Study One, two reinforcement procedures were compared in a structured verbal conditioning task. Study Two was a replication of Study…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Interviews, Laboratory Experiments
Peevers, Barbara H.; And Others – 1972
The purpose of this research was to explore the development of, and relationships among, individual modes of (1) articulating knowledge about and evaluation of peers; (2) attributing causality for interpersonal events to the self and to others; (3) attributing one's own and other's behavior to intentionality or accident. Data was collected for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Interpersonal Relationship
Bradac, James J.; Elliot, Norman D. – 1975
There is increasing debate over the unidimensionality of the construct "drive" in theories of behavior. The earliest drive theory postulated a simple entity which increased or decreased as a function of external or internal stimulation and affected behavior monotonically. Duffy and Malmo have recently hypothesized that the effects of…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Trawick, LaVergne – 1992
This study involved the development and preliminary assessment of an intervention derived from contemporary social-cognitive theory to train academically underprepared college students in academic volitional control strategies, as implied by theory and research on volition and research on academic self-regulation. In this pre-post comparison…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Community Colleges
New York Univ., NY. Inst. for Developmental Studies. – 1971
Findings based on extended analyses of cognitive, familial, personality, and social-behavioral data from two previous research investigations are presented. Data for the main study, i.e., the present study, was collected principally by means of interviews. Findings of the principal study include the following: (1) Parental figures living in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research