Janet D Larsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 7115242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet D Larsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet D |
| FAMILY NAME | Larsen |
| SIGNATURE | LARSEN J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Carroll University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Word Frequency Affects Hypermnesia
Hypermnesia, the tendency of participants to recall more items from a list they have studied when they are asked to recall the list several times on a free-recall test, is enhanced by factors that lead to better performance on free-recall tests. This study tested the hypothesis that words which appear with high frequency in the English language would produce hypermnesia but that low frequency words would not. The activity the 57 participants were…
Acceptance of Misleading Information by Children and Adults
A total of 294 subjects from Grades 1, 3, 6, and college viewed a videotape of a birthday party and heard misleading information embedded in three of nine questions they answered about what they had seen. Two days later, the subjects answered six additional questions which tested whether they had accepted the misleading information. Half the subjects had heard misleading information about three of the questions and half heard misleading informati…
Relationship between Sex-Role and Moral Decision-Making
This study was done to assess whether sex-role influences moral decision-making. 71 subjects took the Bem Sex-role Inventory and a multiple-choice questionnaire based on Kohlberg's moral dilemmas. Researchers predicted that masculine subjects would base their answers to Kohlberg's dilemmas on law-and-order type justice, feminine subjects would base their answers on empathy and caring for others, and androgynous and undifferentiated subjects would…
Myers-Briggs Type and Keeping Appointments for an Experiment on Problem-Solving
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a measure of individual differences in cognitive style, that is, the way people prefer to approach the external world of people and objects and the internal world of ideas. People with different cognitive styles are believed to deal with problems dfferently (Myers & McCadey, 1985). The Myers-Briggs identifies 16 different types. Since the topic of interest was problem solving, an internal task, subjects were div…
No prominent works on this page.
Myers-Briggs Type and Keeping Appointments for an Experiment on Problem-Solving
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a measure of individual differences in cognitive style, that is, the way people prefer to approach the external world of people and objects and the internal world of ideas. People with different cognitive styles are believed to deal with problems dfferently (Myers & McCadey, 1985). The Myers-Briggs identifies 16 different types. Since the topic of interest was problem solving, an internal task, subjects were div…
Relationship between Sex-Role and Moral Decision-Making
This study was done to assess whether sex-role influences moral decision-making. 71 subjects took the Bem Sex-role Inventory and a multiple-choice questionnaire based on Kohlberg's moral dilemmas. Researchers predicted that masculine subjects would base their answers to Kohlberg's dilemmas on law-and-order type justice, feminine subjects would base their answers on empathy and caring for others, and androgynous and undifferentiated subjects would…
Acceptance of Misleading Information by Children and Adults
A total of 294 subjects from Grades 1, 3, 6, and college viewed a videotape of a birthday party and heard misleading information embedded in three of nine questions they answered about what they had seen. Two days later, the subjects answered six additional questions which tested whether they had accepted the misleading information. Half the subjects had heard misleading information about three of the questions and half heard misleading informati…
Word Frequency Affects Hypermnesia
Hypermnesia, the tendency of participants to recall more items from a list they have studied when they are asked to recall the list several times on a free-recall test, is enhanced by factors that lead to better performance on free-recall tests. This study tested the hypothesis that words which appear with high frequency in the English language would produce hypermnesia but that low frequency words would not. The activity the 57 participants were…
Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (2 works) · Applied Psychology (1 work) · Applied Psychology (1 work) · Clinical Psychology (1 work) · Clinical Psychology (1 work) · Cognitive psychology (1 work) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (1 work)