Speer, Erica J
2.32 MB of textual records (PDF)
Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.). -- Algoma University, 1992. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for PSYC 4105. -- Includes figures, tables and questionnaires. -- Contents: Thesis.
This study was an attempt to determine whether a cognitive process analogous to the neurobiological process of consolidation exists; if it does, when a subject integrates and acts on a set of information, cognitive consolidation would manifest itself in the information's subsequent increased resistance to change. A decision task was used to promote the active organization and consolidation of information. Sixty introductory psychology students were asked to make a hypothetical hiring decision based on a partial or complete set of information. I then observed the effect when a new piece of information was added to, or removed from, each set of information after the initial decision was made. Subjects altered their decision in response to newly presented information, indicating the information was not resistant to change. The decision making process failed to demonstrate a "cognitive consolidation" of information occurred.
