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N F Skinner

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PubMed1997

Failure to support a test for penis envy.

Johnson (1966) reported that significantly more women than men did not comply with the request to return their special machine-scoring pencils after completing a final examination in introductory psychology. In the present replication, Johnson's conclusion that keeping the pencils may be manifestation of penis envy was not supported.

Adult↗
PubMed1997

Hypochondria in women as a function of birth order.

The hypothesis that firstborn women would score higher than later-born women on a measure of hypochondria was supported. This result is explained in terms of parental treatment, specifically, the modeling of greater concern about the health of their girls by inexperienced parents.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

Learned helplessness: performance as a function of task significance.

In a study based on the contention that response decrement may be interpreted in terms of learned helplessness only if Ss are aware that their poor performance is due to factors beyond their control (N = 60 male and female high school students), awareness was manipulated by varying "task significance" within the learned helplessness paradigm. Evidence was provided for the hypothesis that Test Task performance would vary inversely with task significance: i.e., the degree to which Ss perceived their competence to be reflected in low scores on the (unsolvable) Training Task. Compared to the Control group, Experimentals (a) solved significantly fewer Test Task anagrams of moderate difficulty, and (b) showed markedly decreased confidence and increased anxiety about their performance, which they attributed to uncontrollable personal characteristics. These findings supported the assertion that learned helplessness has been inadequately substantiated as the explanation of the results of several previous studies.

Adolescent↗