| Abstract: | FROM THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE SITUATION AFFECTS TEST PERFORMANCE BY GENERATING A SET OF ROLE DEMANDS, AN EXPERIMENT WAS DESIGNED IN WHICH 2 RANDOMLY CONSTITUTED GROUPS OF ROTC CADETS WERE ASKED TO DESCRIBE THEMSELVES ON THE SVIB AND WELSH FIGURE PREFERENCE TEST AFTER BEING EXPOSED TO IMPLICIT SOCIAL CUES INTENDED TO INDUCE DIFFERENTIAL ROLE TAKING. HIGHLY RELIABLE, ROLE-SPECIFIC RESPONSE DIFFERENCES WERE OBTAINED ON BOTH TESTS. THESE DIFFERENCES INCREASED WHEN CONTROLS FOR ACCURACY OF ROLE PERCEPTION AND FOR TEST-CUE PROPERTIES WERE INTRODUCED. THE RESULTS WERE INTERPRETED AS SUPPORTING THE HYPOTHESIS AND AS FAVORING THE CONCLUSION THAT THE TEST SCORE REPRESENTS A TRAIT-METHOD-ROLE UNIT. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
