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Meara, Naomi M.; Wixson, Stanton E. – 1970
The study is based on the assumption that certain noncognitive factors influence the learning process, and attempts to tentatively isolate what such variables might be. Subjects were 93 students enrolled in a General Psychology course. Each completed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and was then assigned randomly to one of 4 treatment groups: (1)…
Descriptors: College Students, Learning, Learning Motivation, Learning Processes
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Long, K. Kilby; Bessemer, David W. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Perlmutter, Lawrence C.; Monty, Richard A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
The purpose of the present experiments was to further explore the role of choice by giving Ss the opportunity to choose the stimulus words rather than the response words. (Author)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Motivation, Paired Associate Learning
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Ferguson, Eva D. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Theories, College Students, Motivation
Osborne, John W.; Farley, Frank H. – 1971
In two separate paired-associate learning experiments each employing 40 university students as subjects, the contribution of individual differences (IDs) in arousal to short- and long-term retention was investigated using IDs in salivary response to lemon juice stimulation as an index of arousal. Experimental subjects were pre-selected out of 184…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, College Students, Experimental Psychology, Individual Differences