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Peer reviewedStang, David – Journal of Psychology, 1977
Proposes explanations and further research considerations for the apparent psychological equivalence of the terms "complexity" and "novelty" as they refer to information theory, stimulus generalization, and subject expectancy effects. (RL)
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Attention, Concept Formation, Difficulty Level
Download full textSachs, David A.; May, Jack G., Jr. – 1969
This study was designed to investigate the effects of increasing levels of task complexity on the conditioned emotional response (CER) with human subjects (Ss). Three hypotheses were proposed: (1) the CER would increase as task complexity increased, (2) there would be sex differences between Ss with respect to the interaction between the CER and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Conditioning, Difficulty Level, Electrical Stimuli
