Motivating Instructions and Language Performance of Dysphasic Subjects
- 1 March 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Journal of Speech and Hearing Research
- Vol. 3 (1) , 75-85
- https://doi.org/10.1044/jshr.0301.75
Abstract
Speech behavior of 42 dysphasic subjects following 3 types of motivating instruction[long dash]encouraging, discouraging, non-evaluative[long dash]was investigated in terms of number of errors on naming and reading tests and self-ratings of performance. Dysphasic patients subjected to discouraging instructions do significantly more poorly on language tasks than do those under encouraging instructions. Dysphasic patients under discouraging instructions rate their performance more poorly than do those under encouraging instructions. There is a psychological component in symptomatology presented by the dysphasic individual, and the author postulates the concept of anxiety as an explanation.Keywords
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- AphasiaNeurology, 1951