REINFORCEMENT OF PERFORMANCE ESTIMATION IN INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1998 English Publisher:SAGE PublicationsJournal:Psychological Reports, volume 82, page 905 (issn: 0033-2941,

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Authors: L. J. Harris;

doi: 10.2466/pr0.82.3.905-906 , 10.2466/pr0.1998.82.3.905

REINFORCEMENT OF PERFORMANCE ESTIMATION IN INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY

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64 undergraduates enrolled in two sections of introductory psychology estimated their performance on each of four upcoming classroom tests. One section ( n = 30, 14 men and 16 women) received extra credit for accurate predictions of their test scores and the other section ( n = 34, 15 men and 19 women) received no reinforcement. On each of the four tests, the group who received reinforcement produced significantly more accurate predictions of their scores.

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