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Peer reviewedAponik, David Allen; Dembo, Myron H. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1983
An investigation of the causal attributions of success and failure performances on various levels of task difficulty by 36 learning disabled and 36 nondisabled adolescents revealed that Ss' perceptions of the task difficulty levels were significant determinants of the two groups' differing causal attributions. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Difficulty Level, Failure
Peer reviewedTrope, Yaacov – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1980
Subjects were presented with tasks varying in the extent to which success was diagnostic of high ability and failure was diagnostic of low ability. Results supported the self-assessment theory--high achievement-motivated subjects were more interested in obtaining diagnostic information than in succeeding at difficult tasks. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement Need, Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries
