Date of Award
1963
Degree Name
Psychology
College
College of Liberal Arts
Type of Degree
M.A.
Document Type
Thesis
Abstract
Response set has been defined by Cronbach (1946) as "any tendency causing a person consistently to give different responses to test items than he would when the same content is presented in a different form. " It has been described by Barnes (1955) as the perseveration of the response "true" on a true-false test or of the neutral response on a yes-no test. Lorge (1937) reported that high self-confidence scores on the Berneuter Personality Inventory correlated .27 with tendencies to circle "yes' on several tests . Another way of illustrating response set was described by Goodfellow (1940) . He found that the probability was .80 that persons would call the first toss heads when a coin is flipped, although expectancy of the coin appearing heads was only .50. !n two review articles, Cronbach (1946, 1950) indicated that when situations are unstructured or ambiguous, the influence of response sets is most pronounced.
Subject(s)
Educational tests and measurements.
Recommended Citation
Gray, Gary C., "Some factors related to response sets" (1963). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 2021.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/2021
