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EXTRAVERSION, REMINISCENCE AND SATIATION EFFECTS
Author(s) -
LYNN R.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1960.tb00754.x
Subject(s) - reminiscence , psychology , extraversion and introversion , perception , developmental psychology , correlation , audiology , task (project management) , personality , cognitive psychology , social psychology , big five personality traits , mathematics , neuroscience , medicine , geometry , management , economics
Eysenck's theory that extraverts accumulate reactive inhibition quickly and that it dissipates in them slowly and his application of this theory to after‐effects and reminiscence is made the basis of six predictions: using the spiral after‐effect, there should be (1) a negative correlation between extraversion and duration of the after‐effect; (2) a tendency for extraverts to see progressively less of the after‐effect with repeated massed trials; (3) a tendency for extraverts to recover more in their perception of the after‐effect after a period of rest; (4) a negative correlation between the duration of the after‐effect and a measure of reminiscence using the inverted alphabet printing task; (5) a positive correlation between extraversion and reminiscence; (6) a tendency for extraverts to show more work decrement with massed practice on the inverted alphabet printing task. Using forty male university students as subjects, predictions 1, 2, 4 and 5 are confirmed at a statistically significant level, and predictions 3 and 6 show nonsignificant results in the predicted direction.