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dc.contributor.advisor | Melnyk, William | |
dc.contributor.author | Pratt-Poskus, D. A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-06T13:07:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-06T13:07:17Z | |
dc.date.created | 1983 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/2189 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study examined the importance of cognitions in the feelings of self-control on task performance and on certain subjective states, via electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback training. Subjects in a "misled” EMG feedback group were led to believe that they had successfully reduced their EMG levels (induced cognition of self control); in actuality, the subjects in the misled group were yoked to subjects receiving feedback contingent oii their ovv'n EMG levels; thus, the feedback received by the misled group ’vvas that of their contingent EMG feedback counterparts. The effects of this treatment v/ere explored in relation to feelings of self control via Rotter's I-E scale, EMG task performance during two training trials, state-trait anxiety levels via the 3tate-Tra.it Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and other subjective states via some self-report questionnaires. These data were compared to those of the EMG group receiving feedback contingent on their own EMG levels and to a control group which was also yoked to the contingent feedback group, but who were informed that this was the case. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.subject | Electromyography | |
dc.subject | Biological control systems | |
dc.subject | Locus of control | |
dc.title | Locus of control and expectation of control in EMG biofeedback | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
etd.degree.name | Master of Arts | |
etd.degree.level | Master | |
etd.degree.discipline | Psychology | |
etd.degree.grantor | Lakehead University | |
Appears in Collections: | Retrospective theses |
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