PubMed · 1115214
Influencing students' observations.
Abstract
This article presents a study concerned with the influence of a descriptive introduction on occupational therapy students' perception of a child's behavior. Seventy-two students were divided into four groups. Each group received different information or set before seeing the same seven-minute videotape of a four-year-old boy doing a series of developmental tasks. This study measures the effect of prior information on the students' choice of descriptive words and on a narrative paragraph they wrote after seeing the videotape. Word choice results were significant at the .05 level for two of the four groups.
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G B Shaw. 1975. Influencing students' observations.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1115214/
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