We've Been So Long at the Fair: Two Decades of Psychology on Display

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-201
Author(s):  
Kenneth D. Keith ◽  
Clifford L. Fawl ◽  
Mary Beth Ahlum ◽  
Christopher T. Olson ◽  
Jo Ellen Meerdink ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Psychology ◽  
Public Education ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Educational Opportunity ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Career Information ◽  
School Psychology Students ◽  
Psychology Teachers

Since 1975, Nebraska Wesleyan University has conducted a biennial psychology fair. Undergraduate psychology students present a wide variety of laboratory exhibits and displays for the benefit of high-school psychology students and their teachers, and distinguished visiting psychologists give lectures and meet with high-school teachers. More than 15,000 high-school visitors have participated in the fair, which aims to provide public education, career information, resources and networking for high-school psychology teachers, and educational opportunity for undergraduates.

Expectation and Attractiveness of Group Membership as Functions of Task Difficulty and Magnitude of Reward

1966 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 471-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Wagner
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Psychology ◽  
Task Difficulty ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Separate Sample ◽  
Post Hoc Analysis ◽  
Independent Variation ◽  
School Psychology Students ◽  
Post Hoc

Expectation and attractiveness of group membership were measured under conditions of concurrent but independent variation of task difficulty and associated reward magnitude. The experiment was initially performed on a sample of 108 high school psychology students and was replicated on a separate sample of 99 Ss from the same population. In both experiments, the results indicated that task difficulty affected neither dependent variable, but that both expectation and attractiveness increased with greater magnitude of reward. With task difficulty held constant, goal attractiveness varied directly with magnitude of reward, and, by implication, with goal expectation. A post hoc analysis suggested that the effects of magnitude of reward upon attractiveness of group membership were mediated via expectation of attaining this goal.

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