Relationships among Locus of Control,Type of Task (Visuospatial versus Semantic),and Arousal or Activation by an Unexpected Preparatory Signal: A Reanalysis of the Data
Available accessResearch articleFirst published online April, 1991
Relationships among Locus of Control,Type of Task (Visuospatial versus Semantic),and Arousal or Activation by an Unexpected Preparatory Signal: A Reanalysis of the Data
A corrected analysis of EMG values reported in 1990 in this journal shows a puzzling significant second-order interaction to be no longer significant. Other findings are confirmed.
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