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Newtson, Darren; And Others – 1976
Two five-week test-retest reliability studies of a measure of the unit of perception of ongoing behavior were conducted. In the first, 25 females and 23 males segmented a 7-minute action sequence under fine-unit or gross-unit instructional sets. Number of units marked at first viewing correlated .87 with number of units at retest. Correlations…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Cognitive Processes
Omelich, Carol L.; Covington, Martin V. – 1977
Do success-oriented and failure-avoidant students differ in their performance because of differential attributions? Path analysis, which permits the evaluation of causal assumptions in well-specified theories, was employed to test the adequacy of the causal linkages in the attributional model of achievement behavior. Thus, although differences in…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Failure, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes