Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1975

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Scheuer, Cynthia

Abstract

In view of evidence that female human subjects tend to be more severely inhibited in subsequent performance by frustration than are males, the author maintained that when 11 learned helplessness" was elicited in humans, the magnitude of the interference effect would be greater for female subjects than for males. Subject sex and sex of experimenter in two treatment conditions were manipulated to give a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design. Half the subjects received ten insoluble anagrams initially and half received ten solubles. An analysis of error rates on a subsequent set of 30 solubles revealed a brief interference effect which dissipated after five soluble anagrams. A slight tendency of females to show the hypothesized greater susceptibility to the manipulation was not statistically significant. Parameters of the initial inescapable failure trials as well as factors which might have interacted with subject sex were discussed.

Extent

66 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975.|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975.

Identifier

FADT13717

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