Psychology ETDs

Publication Date

5-1975

Abstract

The ability of the Fink (1972) dimension selection technique to assess reception strategies was tested using an affirmational concept learning task involving a reversal shift. The Fink technique employs a distributed stimulus set composed of three binary dimensions and a procedure which requires the subject to make an overt response in order to sample each dimension. The subjects’ dimension selection responses were categorized into the reception strategies of wholism and partism and were found to be moderately predictive or performance. The reversal shift data were found to provide confirmation for the assertion that, in the presence of objectively determined terminal strategies, the reversal shift procedure is redundant. It was concluded that the Fink technique provides a sensitive and relatively unbiased approach to the assessment of reception strategies, as well as providing a new tool for the evaluation of a contemporary mathematical model of wholism.

Degree Name

Psychology

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Psychology

First Committee Member (Chair)

Peder Jack Johnson

Second Committee Member

Carol Elizabeth Conrad

Third Committee Member

John Paul Gluck JR.

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

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