The effects of training upon the increase of transactive behavior.
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Title
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The effects of training upon the increase of transactive behavior.
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Identifier
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AAI9304639
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identifier
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9304639
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Creator
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Brooks, Lewis Alexander.
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Contributor
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Adviser: David J. Bearison
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Date
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1992
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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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Education, Educational Psychology | Psychology, Developmental | Psychology, Social
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Abstract
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Sixty boys and sixty girls in the first and second grades of public and parochial elementary schools, following pre-test with a score not exceeding two on a spatal relations task adopted from that used in Bearison, Magzamen, and Filardo (1986) were randomly assigned to six groups of ten dyads, composed of either two males, two females, or one male and one female. Subjects in one group of each described composition received training on the use of an interaction strategy of providing an explanation for any disagreement expressed with respect to statements or actions expressed by partner during interaction, together with instruction as to the benefits to be gained by use of such an interaction strategy, while those in corresponding control groups of like composition received neither training nor instruction.;All subjects otherwise received identical treatment with respect to length of exposure to both the training task and the transfer task. All dyadic interactions were videotaped, and subjects' use of eight interaction strategies during both dyadic pre-test and dyadic post-test was tabulated and proportion scores derived. These were regressed upon subjects' dyadic post-test and individual post-test structural index scores, representing the number of correctly placed houses on the spatial-relations task, to determine the relationship between the interaction strategies used and the structural index scores achieved. Additionally, subjects' individual and dyadic post-test scores were analyzed to investigate the effects of training upon task performance.;Results showed that while both experimental and control subjects showed increases in structural index scores, differences on this measure between the two groups were not significant a to the dyadic post-test. On the individual post-test, however, experimental subjects in male-male and female-female dyads significantly exceeded their corresponding controls, while no significant differences were found between mixed-dyad experimental and control subjects. On the comparison of the individual pre-test and post-test structural index scores, experimentals and controls combined showed significant difference favoring the individual post-test structural index scores. Sizeable increases were found in the expression of justified disagreements by experimental subjects, and a significant relationship was found between the expression of verbal-enactive disagreements with explanation and the structural index score, with a linear regression line for this interaction strategy.
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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.
