Influence of Motivation on Reactive Inhibition in Extra Version-Introversion

Autor:	Hogan, Martin J.
Zdroj:	Perceptual & Motor Skills; February 1966, Vol. 22 Issue: 1 p187-192, 6p
Abstrakt:	The present study was designed to examine the influence of reactive inhibition (defined as involuntary rest pauses) on the performance of a vigilance task by extraverts and introverts. It was hypothesized that extraverts would perform more poorly than introverts when level of motivation was held constant. A personality inventory, a motivation questionnaire and a psychomotor (vigilance) task were administered to 50 female Ss, who were grouped as extraverts or introverts on the basis of their personality test scores. Level of motivation for the two groups was equated. Mean performance scores on the vigilance task for the two groups were compared. The results suggest that the concept of reactive inhibition as applied by Eysenck may be used to explain the vigilance performance of extraverts and introverts. There was some support for Eysenck's finding that high levels of drive tend to obscure the performance difference between introverts and extraverts.
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