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The Effect of Attitudinal Factors on the Relationship Between Conditioning and Personality
Author(s) -
ALISSA IHSAN
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1964.tb00413.x
Subject(s) - psychology , extraversion and introversion , neuroticism , personality , conditioning , eysenck personality questionnaire , anxiety , personality assessment inventory , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , big five personality traits , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of attitudinal factors on the relationship between eye‐blink conditioning and personality measures of extraversion, neuroticism and anxiety. The subject's attitudes were experimentally manipulated by (1) varying the instructions; (2) introducing a reaction time task. Under these conditions, an attempt was made to test the prediction made by Eysenck that eye‐blink conditioning is negatively correlated with extraversion as measured by the Maudsley Personality Inventory. Another prediction tested concerns the Spence‐Hull hypothesis that there is positive correlation between eye‐blink conditioning and personality tests of neuroticism and anxiety. Results show that the relationship between eye‐blink conditioning and personality measures is inconsistent and varies with experimental conditions. This inconsistency was due in part to the new scoring method employed in the present study. Results are discussed within the framework of previous studies relating conditioning to personality measures.