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Download full textDickens, Wenda J. – 1984
Perry and Dickens (1984) found that noncontingent-trained students perceived they had less control and manifested a helpless attribution profile compared to contingent-trained students in a simulated college classroom. To examine the effects of varying amounts of noncontingent success on students' perceived control and attributions, 90 students at…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Feedback, Foreign Countries
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
