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Children's Conceptual Tempo And Level Of Aspiration

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volume

46

Issue

2

First Page

587

Last Page

593

Abstract

34 Boys and 30 girls in Grades 2 and 3 were given

Ameasure of conceptual tempo (the Design Recall test) and

Atask requiring them to toss poker chips at

Atarget, estimating the number on target (

Ameasure of level of aspiration). Messer's hypothesis that impulsive children, unlike reflective ones, are anxious about their ability to perform well on such sensorimotor tasks, predicts differences between tempo groups on the level of aspiration task. The results indicated that performance on the Design Recall Test was unrelated to any of the measures from the level of aspiration task (latency, accuracy, and self-estimates of accuracy), even when subjects in the two remaining latency x errors cells were included in analyses. Thus consistent with results of most previous studies, no support was obtained for Messer's hypothesis.

Department

Department of Psychology

Original Publication Date

1-1-1978

DOI of published version

10.2466/pms.1978.46.2.587

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