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Publication Date: 1974-Apr-17
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Information Memory Processing and Retrieval: Relationships of Personality Characteristics and an Abstract Problem Solving Task.
Sweeney, Mary E.
Reported is another study related to the Project on an Information Memory Model. The purpose of this study was to establish the possible relationships of personality characteristics with the processing of information by humans in an abstract problem solving task. Thirty senior high school students, each of whom had completed the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS), were asked to take the role of court judge, deciding on divorce proceedings and custody assignments. The subjects were presented with a problem involving the incestuous relationship between nine people who had Greek-letter names. The subjects vocalized the five-minute solution and the monologues were noun, pronoun analyzed. Twenty-eight information theoretic measures and six external measures were calculated from the Gamma Problem (output was placed in a matrix and treated for information theoretic measures according to the Moser Model). Fifteen personality variables were obtained from the EPPS; nine were used in the analysis. The information theoretic measures, the external measures, and the personality variables were tested for relationships by linear regression analysis. Paradigms, involving data analyses, of the relationships of personality to the information in verbal solutions of the Gamma problem confirmed that personality was embedded in the fashioning of sequences of messages from the memory and for processing a desired state of affairs for a socially sensitive problem. (Author/PEB)
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Note: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (47th, Chicago, Illinois, April 1974). For related documents, see SE 017 740 - 744 and SE 017 760