The study focused on the individual attributes predictive of performance and work satisfaction in two contrasting work situations: (1) with a simple task to be perceived as low on job structural attributes (LJSA) and (2) with a more complex task designed to have a higher level of job structural attributes (HJSA). The job structural variables of…

The study integrates various elements of past approaches to job design. It focuses on determining individual characteristics associated with performance and work satisfaction on a simulated maintenance task designed to be seen as low in job structural attributes (LJSA) by one group and the same task designed to be perceived as high in job…

Although children given tangible reward performed better than children given intangible reward, neither type of reward had an effect that was significantly different from the level attained by a control group which received no explicit reward at all. (Authors)

Recently, an evaluation procedure, behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS), has been developed that attempts to capture performance in multidimensional, behavior-specific terms. Article reviews and evaluates the research on BARS and suggests new directions for future research. (Author/RK)

Implication of findings for classical maturation theories of the development of reaction speed are discussed. (Author/MB)

The present study was an attempt to investigate two motivational interpretations of earlier findings that private speech increases with task difficulty. (Authors)

Study basically supports the Russian theory of the second signal system and its regulatory control of conscious behavior. (Author)

This study examined the effects on group performance and evaluation of three factors: intergroup competition or cooperation, intragroup competition or cooperation, and task means-interdependence. (Editor)

Purpose of this experiment was to investigate the relationship between stimulus recognition and various learning conditions which were designed to affect both stimulus encoding and associative learning in a paired-associate task. (Authors)

In this study, the relevance of striving situations to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation was manipulated by varying the degree of involvement in the child's performance displayed by the experimenter. (Authors)

Results suggested that it may be possible to seek most efficient'' strategies for given tasks, and possibly, conditionally'' most efficient strategies for individual ability profiles. (Author)

Two experiments were conducted to determine the effect of sex of subject, stated sex linkage of task, and task outcome on causal attributions of an actor's performance. Suggests that the differences between males and females in performance evaluation and self-attribution occurs most strongly in response to failure and on masculine tasks.…

Research combined an experimental analysis of the cue properties of evaluative comments with a naturalistic account of the functions that such events serve in everyday interchanges. (Authors)

Study compares the effects of different conditions which imply reversibility on children's judgments of conservation of quantity. (Authors)