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BLATT, SIDNEY J. – 1963
THE EFFECT OF ANXIETY ON COGNITIVE PROCESS HAS BEEN AN AREA OF EXTENSIVE RESEARCH. CONSIDERABLE EVIDENCE HAS INDICATED THAT HIGH ANXIOUS SUBJECTS ARE INFERIOR TO LOW ANXIOUS SUBJECTS ON COMPLEX COGNITIVE TASKS. ANOTHER FACTOR WHICH MAY INFLUENCE THE EFFECTS OF ANXIETY IS THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH A TASK IS PRESENTED. RECENT RESEARCH HAS SUGGESTED…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Performance Factors
Peer reviewedYang, Kuo-Shu – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Expectation, Males
Peer reviewedTennyson, Robert D.; Woolley, F. Ross – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Emotional Response
Peer reviewedSoward, John B.; Moss, Stanley M. – Journal of General Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Females, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedDeci, Edward L. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Hypothesis Testing
Peer reviewedSimpson, W. E.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Correlation
Peer reviewedJackson, D. W. – Psychological Reports, 1974
A decrement toward lowered levels of cognitive functioning was noted in a study of aged residents of a dependent care facility when tested on a series of cognitive conservation tasks. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Educational Background
Download full textGabbard, Carl – 1978
This study was designed (1) to investigate the relationship between physical exertion and mental performance in elementary school children and (2) to determine if male or female mental performances are more affected by physical exertion. A total of 95 second graders participated in six treatments of induced physical exertion during their regularly…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Gruen, Gerald E. – 1971
Three studies compared learning and problem-solving performances of normal and familially-retarded children on tasks differing in complexity, and one study investigated motivational-personality differences. Main purpose of the first three studies was to investigate the controversy between developmental and defect theorists in mental retardation.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Exceptional Child Research, Intelligence Differences
Peer reviewedRoyer, Fred L. – Intelligence, 1978
Various experiments demonstrated that the difficulty level of several performance-type intelligence test tasks is determined directly by stimulus and task variables that vary the information to be processed. The implications of these findings for intelligence and the problems of an experimental approach to the measurement of intelligence are…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Intelligence Tests
Peer reviewedFord, Marguerite P. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Grade 4, Memory
Peer reviewedSobel, Robert S. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Models
Lingle, John H.; Ostrom, Thomas M. – 1975
Three experiments were conducted investigating information processing in a person perception task. A sequential judgement paradigm was employed in which subjects judged the suitability of stimulus persons for two different occupations. Traits describing each person were present for subjects' first judgements but not their second. Second decision…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Information Processing, Interpersonal Relationship, Perception
Lingle, John H.; And Others – 1975
Two experiments are reported examining the influence of the relationship between judgemental sets on the processing and integration of information in a person perception task. Experiment I showed that subjects made an occupational judgement about another more quickly when the judgement was similar rather than dissimilar to a previous occupational…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Information Processing, Interpersonal Relationship, Models
Gorman, Bernard S.; Breskin, Stephen – Percept Mot Skills, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Creative Thinking, Creativity Research
