Acquisition of Verbal Concepts as a Function of Explicit and Implicit Experimental Demands and Repression-Sensitization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10121871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William H Bergquist (University of Idaho, corresponding author), Horst D Klemm (University of Idaho) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-80 |
| Publication date | 1973-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of General Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1309 • E-ISSN: 1940-0888 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00221309.1973.9710819 |
| PMID | 4146013 |
| OpenAlex | W2121666527 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
One hundred and two subjects were given three verbal concept acquisition tasks. The first task involved an implicit demand condition. The second involved an explicit demand, and the third again involved an implicit demand. Under all three demand conditions, Ss responded correctly at rates that significantly (p < .001) exceeded both chance rates and the rates of Ss who performed the task without experimental demands. Acquisition scores were significantly higher (p < .01) when Ss were exposed to explicit demands (Condition 2) or to implicit demands having already been exposed to explicit demands (Condition 3), than when initially exposed to implicit demands (Condition 1). Analyses were also made of the interrelationship between concept acquisition scores and S's ability to verbalize the concepts correctly. Acquisition and verbalization scores were most often found to be significantly (p < .05) correlated under conditions of implicit demand, during the first 20 trials of each task or when the critical concept was “femininity.” Several measures of personality were found to be significantly (p < .05) correlated with acquisition scores. Repression (R S Scale), low anxiety (Welch A Scale), high defensiveness (K Scale), and low psychasthenia (Pt Scale) were found to be significantly associated with high acquisition scores under implicit demand conditions and/or totaled over all three conditions. The several personality variables were not found to be significantly correlated with verbalization scores
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 1977 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |