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Two sessions of multiple-choice learning were administered to 172 college students. Two groups worked in pairs, one student performing (making the responses) and the other observing the performer. In the other two groups, the subjects worked individually. Each subject performed on half of the stimuli and observed on the other half, observers watching the protocol of a previous performer. The main results were that on tests given immediately after each training trial, performers reliably reported more correct and incorrect responses than observers, confirming previous results obtained under similar conditions. A secondary result was that female students showed reliably greater repetition of incorrect responses under social conditions.
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This research was supported in part by Research Career Award l-K6-MH-22-023 from the National Institute of Mental Health and by Grant DAHC19-74-G-0008 from the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. to the second author. The opinions stated in this report are those of the authors and are in no way to be considered as endorsed by the U.S. Army. David W. Witter’s present address is: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Arlington. Virginia.
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Witter, D.W., Marx, M.H. & Farbry, J. Long-term persistence of response- repetition tendencies based on performance or observation. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 8, 65–67 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335081
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