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EQUIVALENCE OF ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF A CONCEPT‐FORMATION TASK *
Author(s) -
SEMEONOFF B.,
SKINNER D. J. M.
Publication year - 1971
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.2044-8279.1971.tb00682.x
Subject(s) - equivalence (formal languages) , psychology , test (biology) , task (project management) , social psychology , philosophy , linguistics , engineering , paleontology , systems engineering , biology
S ummary . The Trist‐Hargreaves test and two parallel forms were administered, in all possible orders of presentation, to 60 student subjects. Results indicated (1) that the difficulty of a concept‐formation task is significantly affected by the nature of the variables used in the structure of the test material, and (2) that while there was a transfer effect between the tests presented first and second this effect all but disappeared by the time the third test was presented. Implications for the psychology of thinking and for clinical practice are briefly considered.