Task-orientation as it relates to psychological efficiency

dc.contributor.author	McKenzie, Audrey Elaine	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2024-08-14T22:46:32Z
dc.date.available	2024-08-14T22:46:32Z
dc.date.copyright	1968	en_US
dc.date.issued	1968
dc.degree.department	Department of Psychology
dc.degree.level	Master of Arts M.A.	en
dc.description.abstract	Two experiments are reported using senior high school students as Ss. The purpose of both experiments was to discover if the findings of Wishner's (1955) series of studies, concerning his concept of psychological efficiency, could be generalized to a population other than that which Wishner had used: first year college students. In his studies Wishner defined psychological efficiency as a function of the ratio of ener expended directly on the task to energy expended in activity irrelevant to the task. Orientation or direction of centering, whether toward the task or toward the ego, was basic to Wishner's experimental studies, in the experiments reported here the direction of centering was manipulated by another strategy of instruction than that customarily used by Wishner (1962). Results of the experiments gave only qualified support to the results which Wishner had demonstrated repeatedly and, in some respects, revealed a pattern of energy expenditure diametrically opposed to Wishner's findings.	en
dc.format.extent	44 pages
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1828/18945
dc.rights	Available to the World Wide Web	en_US
dc.title	Task-orientation as it relates to psychological efficiency	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

Files

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1