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AN EXPERIMENT ON THE EFFECTS OF MENTAL SET IN THE BROOK REACTION TEST
Author(s) -
HARGREAVES D. H.,
HEIM A. W.,
WATTS K. P.
Publication year - 1963
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.2044-8279.1963.tb00586.x
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , set (abstract data type) , subject (documents) , social psychology , library science , computer science , biology , programming language , paleontology
S ummary . In the Brook Reaction test an attempt is made to assess the subject's interests. Words potentially denoting one of six selected interests were, in this experiment, presented consecutively to an experimental group, and in randomised order to a control group. Some degree of mental set was induced in the experimental subjects, reaching significance level in the case of one interest only.