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Effects of Covert Modeling and Written Material on the Acquisition of a Counseling Strategy
Author(s) -
SCOTT ALBERT J.,
CORMIER WILLIAM L.,
CORMIER L. SHERILYN
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1980.tb01623.x
Subject(s) - covert , psychology , repeated measures design , test (biology) , control (management) , analysis of variance , treatment and control groups , clinical psychology , computer science , medicine , statistics , artificial intelligence , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , mathematics , machine learning , biology , pathology
This study investigated the efficacy of covert other modeling, covert self‐modeling, and written material on the acquisition of a counseling strategy that involved developing goals. Thirty‐six student counselors were assigned randomly to the following four treatment conditions: covert other model, covert self‐model, written material, and delayed‐treatment control. Written pretest, posttest, retention test measures, and role‐play pre‐ and posttest measures were obtained. A repeated measures ANOVA revealed that performance on the written measures for the three treatment groups increased significantly from pre‐ to post‐ testing and from pre‐ to retention testing. On the role‐play measure, the performance of the three treatment groups also increased significantly from pre‐ to posttesting. The performance of the control group on pre‐ and posttesting for the written and role‐play measures did not increase significantly.