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A FACTORIAL STUDY OF LEARNING A NEW NUMBER SYSTEM AND ITS RELATION TO ATTAINMENT, INTELLIGENCE AND TEMPERAMENT
Author(s) -
Hebron M. E.
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1962.tb01730.x
Subject(s) - psychology , extraversion and introversion , temperament , factorial , developmental psychology , stimulus (psychology) , set (abstract data type) , social psychology , cognitive psychology , personality , big five personality traits , mathematical analysis , mathematics , computer science , programming language
S ummary . A factorial study of items in a new arithmetic learning situation suggests that, although knowledge of one system is the most important single factor in learning a new one, temperamental aspects of attention and set are also relevant. Subjects deemed suitable for the extraverted roles of exploration and amusements assimilated strange and unfamiliar facts with greater facility than those allocated to the more introverted roles of nursing and chores. The latter manipulated processes with greater effect once the facts were assimilated. Finally, there is the tentative suggestion that the two introverted roles tended to be associated with avoidance of error in two characteristic ways—those thought of as nurses were cautious at the first impact of test stimulus and those allocated to chores performed well during prolonged trials.