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Effects of instructional set and self-awareness on task performance of retarded female adults
Abstract:
The effects of success, failure, and neutral instructional sets on the task performance of retarded female adults were studied under varying conditions of self-awareness. A significant Set X Self-Awareness interaction was found where subjects in the neutral-set condition under high-awareness assembled more pens than subjects under the medium- or low-awareness conditions. The results were discussed in light of the expectancy of failure hypothesis.
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