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Peer reviewedMcAndrew, Francis T. – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
An activity that teaches psychology students about the primacy effect that occurs when individuals make judgments about the ability of other people is described. The primacy effect is the tendency for an observer's judgment to be influenced more strongly by early information about a person than by information that comes later. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Demonstrations (Educational), Higher Education, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedPalmquist, Wendy Jean – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Results showed that when information about a target individual was presented in two internally consistent blocks which were mutually contradictory, impressions produced by concrete operational adolescents contained a significantly greater proportion of evaluative statements in the same evaluative direction as the first block of information…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Development, Primacy Effect
Download full textMcAndrew, Francis T. – 1981
Previous research has suggested the existence of a primacy effect in the attribution of ability. To test if the primacy effect occurs in situations where specific cues about the person and nature of the test materials are lacking or greatly reduced, college students corrected a multiple-choice test in which a phantom stimulus person correctly…
Descriptors: Ability, Attribution Theory, Evaluation Criteria, Learning Theories
Direct linkScheck, Petra; Nelson, Thomas O. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2005
The authors investigated whether underconfidence in judgments of learning (JOLs) is pervasive across multiple study-test trials as suggested by A. Koriat, L. Sheffer, and H. Ma'ayan (2002) or whether underconfidence with practice (UWP) might be a kind of anchoring-and-adjustment effect, such that the occurrence or nonoccurrence of the UWP effect…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Psychological Patterns, Psychological Studies, Value Judgment
Larkin, Judith E.; And Others – 1983
Previous research on the primacy effect in ability attribution has focused on intellectual ability, using intelligence test problems as the stimulus material. To examine ability attribution under conditions of ascending (improving), descending, and random patterns of performance on a typing task, 179 college students (69 males, 110 females)…
Descriptors: Ability, Attribution Theory, College Students, Higher Education
Tavassoli, Nader T.; Lee, Yih Hwai – Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, 2004
The authors found that the order of attribute presentation had a stronger effect on judgment in English than in Chinese. In Experiment 1, with a sample of 102 female and 63 male bilingual Singaporeans, the authors found that participants' memory-based judgments showed a stronger primacy effect in English than in Chinese that was mediated by recall…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primacy Effect, Long Term Memory, Bilingualism
