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1969

Psychology

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Affect And Meaningfulness As Variables In Mediate Association, James A. Aagard May 1969

Affect And Meaningfulness As Variables In Mediate Association, James A. Aagard

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether affect influences mediate association. A second purpose of this experiment was to test whether there could be found an interaction between affect and meaningfulness in the verbal mediation scores.

The subjects were all of the students registered for an Educational Psychology class at Utah State University, Spring Quarter, 1969. These students were randomly assigned to one of two groups, designated Phase I or Phase II. Phase I was designed to study the influence of affect upon mediation and the subjects in this group learned two lists of seven paired associates. Phase …