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Personality and paired‐associate learning 1
Author(s) -
Fuller Andrew R.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207597808246616
Subject(s) - extraversion and introversion , arousal , psychology , stimulus (psychology) , personality , eysenck personality questionnaire , low arousal theory , developmental psychology , audiology , cognitive psychology , big five personality traits , social psychology , medicine
Eysenck has theorized that introverts are high in arousal and should show the pattern of results which has been displayed in several experiments by subjects confronted with high‐arousal stimulus materials: poor performance on short‐term and good performance on long‐term measures of retention. Extraverts, on the other hand, are thought to be low in arousal and should show the reverse pattern as displayed by subjects confronted with low‐arousal stimulus materials. The relevant experiments conducted in Britain confirm these predictions. The relevant United States studies do not. The method used in the present study, in which Americans were subjects, is that of an experiment of Kleinsmith and Kaplan (1964) which found the patterns of retention predicted on the basis of the subjects' exposure to high‐ or low‐arousal stimulus materials. But, as in the other tests of Eysenck's predictions, arousal was measured in terms of introversion and extraversion. The results failed to support Eysenck's formulation.