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Peer reviewedHarris, Roma M.; Highlen, Pamela S. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Examined the effects of escapable versus inescapable aversive stimuli (noise) on performance in relation to the conceptual complexity level of college students (N=60). Overall, results suggested that conceptual complexity level mediated the experience of learned helplessness. Conceptually complex students were less negatively affected than…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation
