COGNITIVE DETERMINANTS OF ROLE PLAYING

Abstract

Ten representatives of each of the four major levels of concreteness- abstractness posited by Harvey, Hunt and Schroder (1961) were required to argue in opposition to their own belief concerning whether or not philosophy should be required as a minor for all college undergraduates. Subjects presented their arguments under either a private condition, in which they were erroneously assured no one would ever know the arguments they presented, or under a public condition, in which they were advised that their tape-recorded arguments would later be heard by a university curriculum committee. In addition to the This I Believe Test, scored for abstractness in two ways, each of the 80 Ss was also administered Rokeach's (1960) scales of dogmatism and opinionation as well as the F Scale, Gough and SANFORD'S Rigidity Scale (1952), the Doodlebug Problem (Denny, 1945) and the WAIS intelligence test. Subjects' tape-recorded arguments were scored on 18 variables of role playing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0405932

Entities

People

  • O. J. Harvey

Organizations

  • University of Colorado Boulder

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Concrete
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Intelligence Tests
  • Minority Groups
  • Personality
  • Psychology
  • Recording Systems
  • Standards
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Students
  • Tape Recorders
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.