Interactive
Effects of Personality and Imagery Variables in Short term Memory
U. Tanwar & D. Malhotra |
The
interactive effect of extraversion/introversion, mental imagery and
instructional imagery was observed upon 160 school children selected
on the basis of their scores on JEPI and IDQ. The short term memory
tests were given to the subjects to meet the requirements of 2 x
2 x 2 (6) repeated measure ANOVA for distractor and 2 x 2 x 2 x 2
(2) for probe techniques. The findings reveal that high imagery groups
and instructions-to-form-image groups performed significantly better
than their respective counterparts. In the absence of differences
in personality groups, the findings suggest that in the presence
of some kind of distraction-may be due to interpolated activity in
distractor technique and similarity of material (NSS) in probe technique-did
not let the extraverts have the edge over the introverts. The contentions
with respect to the personality variable are highly tentative which
probably needs reconfirmation since the experimental evidence in
this regard is quite contrary.
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