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Effects of cigarette smoking on verbal rote learning and physiological arousal
Author(s) -
ANDERSSON KARIN,
POST BIRGITTA
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1974.tb00586.x
Subject(s) - nicotine , psychology , arousal , cigarette smoking , rote learning , developmental psychology , social psychology , medicine , psychiatry , teaching method , mathematics education , cooperative learning
.— Verbal rote learning was studied on 12 moderate smokers. In one condition learning was interrupted twice by smoking a nicotine‐containing cigarette (Virginia King, 2.1 mg nicotine) and in another condition by smoking a nicotine‐free cigarette. Immediately after the first nicotine‐containing cigarette there was a drop in the number of correct responses and learning was significantly less rapid under subsequent trials as compared with learning after the first nicotine‐free cigarette. After the second cigarette the picture was reversed. Learning was significantly more improved in the nicotine condition than in the nicotine‐free condition. Adrenalin excretion increased significantly during learning in both conditions, and heart rate increased significantly after the first nicotine‐containing cigarette.