Connectionist simulation of attitude learning: asymmetries in the acquisition of positive and negative evaluations.

PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN Eiser et al. / CON ECTIONIST ATTITUDE LEARNING Connectionist Simulation of Attitude Learning: Asymmetries in the Acquisition of Positive and Negative Evaluations

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, in press Connectionist simulation of attitude learning: Asymmetries in the acquisition of positive and negative evaluations

Connectionist computer simulation was employed to explore the notion that, if attitudes guide approach and avoidance behaviors, false negative beliefs are likely to remain uncorrected for longer than false positive beliefs. In Study 1, we trained a threelayer neural network to discriminate ‘good’ and ‘bad’ inputs distributed across a twodimensional space. ‘Full feedback’ training, whereby conne...

Effect of Type of Feedback on Intrinsic Motivation and Learning of Volleyball Jump Serve in Students with Different Levels of Neuroticism

Background. Several researchers have studied the effects of type of feedback on learning motor skills, but there are few studies on the interaction between personality traits and the type of feedback. Objectives. This study aimed at investigating the effect of type of feedback on intrinsic motivation and learning volleyball jump serve in students with neuroticism. Methods. A total of 59 femal...

Prejudiced learning: a connectionist account.

Connectionist simulation was employed to investigate processes that may underlie the relationships between prior expectancies or prejudices and the acquisition of attitudes, under conditions where learners can only discover the valence of attitude objects through directly experiencing them. We compared contexts analogous to learners holding either false negative expectancies ('prejudices') abou...

P169: The Effect of Math Instructional Interventions on Math Anxiety and Attitude towards Mathematics

In recent years, mathematics is an essential aspect of all areas of daily life and the best predictor of being successful in economic situations of society. For many students, the mathematics accompanied with frustration, anxiety and negative attitudes towards mathematics. These students believe their anxiety have been derived from their math teachers, math misconception and weakness in math as...