Date of Award:
5-1975
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Psychology
Committee
Elwin Nielson
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of experimenter
status and subject dogmatism on anagram solving. The subjects were
90 college students. Only those subjects scoring in the upper or lower
thirds on the Dogmatism Scale were utilized. The same experimenter was
described as being of either high or low status in each class. In the
low status condition, the experimenter was introduced as a student making
up an incomplete, while in the high-status condition, the experimenter was
introduced as a Doctoral student doing research for a Federal Grant Agency.
Therefore, four experimental groups were formed in relation to two different
levels of dogmatism and two different statuses for the experimenter.
A two-way analysis of variance with one covariate {Composite ACT scores
to account for intellectual functioning) was computed using subject dogmatism
and experimenter status as the independent variables and anagram
performance as the dependent variable. It was found that neither the main
affects of subject dogmatism and experimenter status, nor the interaction
between the two variables were significant. Analysis of a questionnaire
designed to evaluate the status manipulation indicated that the manipulation
had not been effective. The problem of devising an effective status manipulation for a female experimenter was discussed in relation to future
research.
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Recommended Citation
Ballering, Michele, "Performance on an Anagram Task as a Function of Experimenter Status and Subject Dogmatism" (1975). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 6309.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6309
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