Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
In view of evidence that female human subjects tend
to be more severely inhibited in subsequent performance by
frustration than are males, the author maintained that
when 11 learned helplessness" was elicited in humans, the
magnitude of the interference effect would be greater for
female subjects than for males. Subject sex and sex of
experimenter in two treatment conditions were manipulated
to give a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design. Half the subjects
received ten insoluble anagrams initially and half received
ten solubles. An analysis of error rates on a subsequent
set of 30 solubles revealed a brief interference effect
which dissipated after five soluble anagrams. A slight
tendency of females to show the hypothesized greater
susceptibility to the manipulation was not statistically
significant. Parameters of the initial inescapable failure
trials as well as factors which might have interacted with
subject sex were discussed.
to be more severely inhibited in subsequent performance by
frustration than are males, the author maintained that
when 11 learned helplessness" was elicited in humans, the
magnitude of the interference effect would be greater for
female subjects than for males. Subject sex and sex of
experimenter in two treatment conditions were manipulated
to give a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design. Half the subjects
received ten insoluble anagrams initially and half received
ten solubles. An analysis of error rates on a subsequent
set of 30 solubles revealed a brief interference effect
which dissipated after five soluble anagrams. A slight
tendency of females to show the hypothesized greater
susceptibility to the manipulation was not statistically
significant. Parameters of the initial inescapable failure
trials as well as factors which might have interacted with
subject sex were discussed.
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