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Self perception in late adolescence
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TIIEMA 7
task consisted of learning lists of nonsense syllables, by the method of serial anticipation, to a criterion of two successive correct repetitions. In the fit'st group a conditioning procedure, questionnaire measures of personality factors and a test of general intelligence were also administered. In the second group the subjects were required to continue the serial anticipation task for thirty trials beyond one perfect repetition, and questionnaire measures of personality factors and a test of general intelligence were again administered. In both groups the relationship of the personality measures and the tests of intelligence to certain aspects of the serial learning task will be discussed while special mention will be made to the measure of conditioning taken in the first group and to the subjects' performance as the asymptote of learning was approached in the second group.
S E L F P E R C E P T I O N ]aN L A T E A D O L E S C E N C E DEE G. APPLEY Carbondale, IlL (USA)
Because many important life decisions must be made betsveen the ages of 16 and 21, individuals in late adolescence are particularly likely to find themselves consciously considering their future goals and how to realize them. Implicit in this searching is a consideration of the self, each individual intensely experiencing his existence as a separate human being, and experiencing also a heightened awareness of others. The self is composed of a complex of thoughts, feelings, attitudes and psychological states. How the individual feels about himself is a part of this complex and is, of course, critically related to how this self may be realized. One important dime-sion of attitude towards the self is the "selfacceptance self-rejection dimension. Another is the discrepancy between one's conception of one's self and some other or ideal self. Both are related to the possibilities for self realization. This paper reports the results of an investigation involving a large sample of college freshman women. They were given the opportunity to describe themselves by means of a 300 item adjective check list (after Gough et al.). A consideration of the favorable and unfavorable adjectives used by them to describe themselves and to describe others is given. The findings are discussed within a theoretical framework.
TIIEMA 7
task consisted of learning lists of nonsense syllables, by the method of serial anticipation, to a criterion of two successive correct repetitions. In the fit'st group a conditioning procedure, questionnaire measures of personality factors and a test of general intelligence were also administered. In the second group the subjects were required to continue the serial anticipation task for thirty trials beyond one perfect repetition, and questionnaire measures of personality factors and a test of general intelligence were again administered. In both groups the relationship of the personality measures and the tests of intelligence to certain aspects of the serial learning task will be discussed while special mention will be made to the measure of conditioning taken in the first group and to the subjects' performance as the asymptote of learning was approached in the second group.
S E L F P E R C E P T I O N ]aN L A T E A D O L E S C E N C E DEE G. APPLEY Carbondale, IlL (USA)
Because many important life decisions must be made betsveen the ages of 16 and 21, individuals in late adolescence are particularly likely to find themselves consciously considering their future goals and how to realize them. Implicit in this searching is a consideration of the self, each individual intensely experiencing his existence as a separate human being, and experiencing also a heightened awareness of others. The self is composed of a complex of thoughts, feelings, attitudes and psychological states. How the individual feels about himself is a part of this complex and is, of course, critically related to how this self may be realized. One important dime-sion of attitude towards the self is the "selfacceptance self-rejection dimension. Another is the discrepancy between one's conception of one's self and some other or ideal self. Both are related to the possibilities for self realization. This paper reports the results of an investigation involving a large sample of college freshman women. They were given the opportunity to describe themselves by means of a 300 item adjective check list (after Gough et al.). A consideration of the favorable and unfavorable adjectives used by them to describe themselves and to describe others is given. The findings are discussed within a theoretical framework.