To determine if learned helplessness treatment debilitates human working memory and fluid intelligence, 60 university students, classified as high or low self-monitors, were assigned to one of three treatments: intermittent (50%) controllable positive feedback, uncontrollable (yoked) negative feedback, and no treatment. Test tasks included backward digit and backward spatial span (representing working memory), matrices (representing fluid intelligence), vocabulary (representing crystallized intelligence), and forward digit and forward spatial span (representing immediate span of apprehension). Results generally were not significant and were discussed as possibly due to ineffective treatment procedure. Further research on this topic is needed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504165 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Fernandez, Peter, 1961- |
| Contributors | Kennelly, Kevin J., Hayslip, Bert, Wenrich, W. W., 1932- |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iv, 33 leaves, Text |
| Rights | Public, Fernandez, Peter, 1961-, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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