VERBAL AND PERFORMANCE SKILLS IN RELATION TO ESP.
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Title
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VERBAL AND PERFORMANCE SKILLS IN RELATION TO ESP.
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Identifier
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AAI8119755
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identifier
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8119755
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Creator
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MITCHELL, JANET LEE.
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Contributor
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Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler
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Date
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1981
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Experimental
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Abstract
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Forty women were given a battery of psychological tests in order to obtain nine scores each for performance abilities and verbal skills. The tests included the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), an advanced vocabulary test, Purdue Pegboard, finer maze, and a modified Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) introspective verbal and performance scale. Each woman also completed one verbal and one performance clairvoyant ESP test. Tests included 72 verbal trials to name six different color targets and 72 performance trials to place these targets in the correct color-coded letter-type chutes in a wall. Women were asked their personal color preferences among the color samples before the test began. Both subjects and experimenter filled out mood scale questionnaires before the ESP session and after it was completed.;There were no significant overall ESP results. However, by using signal detection theory to examine the tendency of psi-missing in the experiment, five of the six colors used as targets in the Verbal ESP (VSP) and Performance ESP (PSP) conditions showed a significant missing effect. Two of these findings occurred with VSP (orange and purple--nonpreferred colors) and three with PSP (red, green, and blue--preferred colors). VSP results with the color purple were highly significant (t = -2.95, 39df; p = .003).;Two scoring techniques were used with the nonlinear targets: hit and miss data, and proximity scoring (closeness of responses to targets). Pearson product moment correlations were obtained between VSP and PSP hit and proximity deviation scores and the 18 cognitive scores mentioned above. A test of significance of the difference between the two coefficients for each set of scores was also obtained.;The most significant correlation existed between VSP and modified SCII introspective verbal score. Both scoring techniques confirmed this finding: higher verbal introspective score--higher VSP scores and significantly negative correlations with PSP scores. Significance of the difference between coefficients were p = .001 with hit deviation scores and p = .01 with proximity scoring. SCII performance scores were negatively correlated to VSP and more positively correlated to PSP. Object Assembly scores (WAIS performance subtest) were negatively correlated to hit deviation VSP scores with a difference between coefficients significant at a p = .05 level. Using proximity scoring data, significant correlations existed between VSP and two WAIS verbal subtests, Information and Vocabulary. There was a significant negative correlation between PSP and the Comprehension subtest.;Overall correlations indicate that higher verbal scores were associated with higher VSP scores; higher performance scores were associated with higher PSP scores; lower verbal scores were associated with lower VSP scores; and lower performance scores were associated with lower PSP scores.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
