Interrelationships among personality variables, kinesthetic figure afteraffect, and reminiscence in motor learning.

Work decrement, kinesthetic aftereffect, and personality.

“…First, the three homologous measures of inhibitory tendency were all negatively related, in contrast to Eysenck's prediction of positive relations. Second, Lipman and Spitz (1961) and Meier (1961) found high negative correlations between the rate of recovery from work decrement and the total amount of KAE built up; this correlation was negative in this investigation also (r = -.114) but did not reach an acceptable level of significance. Moreover, seven of the nine coefficients in this investigation were negative in sign.…”

“…A number of studies have shown some kinds of performance differences between introverts and extraverts on motor tasks (Eysenck, 1956;Lynn, 1960;Meier, 1961;Ray, 1959;Star, 1957;Treadwell, 1956), while others (Bendig & Vaughn, 1959;Rechtschaffen, 1958) have found no differences whatsoever. Eysenck (1957) cites three investigations in support of the hypothesis that introverts and extraverts differ in regards to KAE, but Harvarth (1963), Meier (1961), Norcross, Lipman, and Spitz (1960), and Rechtschaffen and Bookbinder (I960) found no such differences. Moreover, two studies have directly explored the relationship between KAE and work decrement (Lipman & Spitz, 1961;Meier, 1961).…”

“…Eysenck (1957) cites three investigations in support of the hypothesis that introverts and extraverts differ in regards to KAE, but Harvarth (1963), Meier (1961), Norcross, Lipman, and Spitz (1960), and Rechtschaffen and Bookbinder (I960) found no such differences. Moreover, two studies have directly explored the relationship between KAE and work decrement (Lipman & Spitz, 1961;Meier, 1961). Both studies lent slight support to Eysenck's position in finding a negative relationship between magnitude of KAE and rate of recovery from work decrement.…”

“…Both of the above investigations have reported correlations which were considerably higher than those reported in the present study. One reason for this difference may be related to their use of rotary pursuit (Lipman & Spitz, 1961) and inverted alphabet printing (Meier, 1961), both of which involve considerably more learning than the ball-dropping task. While inhibitory effects are apparent in the performance of all three of these tasks, it may well be that subsuming these effects under one general construct, 1' R , is misleading without taking into account the nature of associative factors.…”

“Neurological Efficiency,” Perception, and Personality

“…Thus, the Livson and Krech s~d y tends to confirm the postulated relationship berween perceptual "satiation" and learning phenomena. Meier's (1956) study demonstrated that the amount of reminiscence in a motor learning task varied negatively with extent of KAEs and interpreted his data as supporting the notion of a central variable, common to performance on both the perceptual and learning tasks. Rechtschaffen ( 1958), however, was not able to find a relationship between visual figural aftereffects and an "inhibition" score derived from massed and distributed practice on an inverted alphabet-printing task.…”