The effect of ego orientation and problem difficulty on muscle action potentials.
- 1 January 1956
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 51 (2) , 142-148
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0048757
Abstract
Tested the hypothesis that ego-instructed Ss would have different muscle action potential changes during problem solving than task-oriented Ss if problem difficulty were controlled. The muscle potential changes of both the ego- and task-oriented Ss are interpreted as being in agreement with both a level-of-aspiration hypothesis and Goldstein's "catastrophic reaction" hypothesis. Concluded that tension increase during problem solution was due to the interaction of orientation and the difficulty of the problem. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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