Effect of an Incentive upon Intelligence Test Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13675416 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louis S Dickstein (Wellesley College, corresponding author), Jayne Ayers (Wellesley College) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 127-130 |
| Publication date | 1973-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1973.33.1.127 |
| OpenAlex | W1980473141 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
Previous research has indicated that the manipulation of motivating conditions through explicit examiner's expectancy of good performance can significantly improve performance on intelligence tests. In the present study, the manipulation of incentive was used to improve performance. College women were told that the five best scorers would receive monetary rewards. The group receiving incentive-instructions scored significantly higher than the control group on the WAIS Performance Scale and on the Object Assembly subtest. No difference between the groups was obtained for the Advanced Progressive Matrices
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Control (management · Expectancy theory · Incentive · Intelligence quotient · Microeconomics · Object (grammar · Psychiatry · Raven's Progressive Matrices · Significant difference · Statistics · Test (biology · Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale · Applied Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2018 (45) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |