Western Kentucky University
Relationship of Subjects' Preexperiment Attitudes Toward Psychology and Experimenter Prestige
Abstract
dc:description.abstractA study is reported which examines the effects of Ss attitudes toward psychological research as measured by the Psychology Research Survey (PRS) (high or low), apparent E prestige (high, medium, or low), and sex of 13 on ratings of success and failure given in Rosenthal's person-perception task. It was found that E prestige interacted with sex of S to significantly affect performance. Several of the pictures used in the person-perception task were also found to be consistently rated as depicting success or failure. Questions are raised concerning the psychometric soundness of both the PRS and the person-perception task. Implications for future research are indicated with the need for replication studies emphasized.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Department of Psychology
- Year
- 1971
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Quick, Sam
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1007
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.wku.edu:theses-2010