Study Habits and Attitudes Study

Presenter Information

Amanda Cyr, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Location

CSU 253/4/5

Start Date

5-4-2010 1:00 PM

End Date

5-4-2010 3:00 PM

Student's Major

Psychology

Student's College

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Mentor's Name

Emily Stark

Mentor's Department

Psychology

Mentor's College

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Description

Study habits are something we can use to measure success in school. By learning how college students study and their attitudes toward studying we can help not only their success but the success of the school. This study assesses how students’ text anxiety or relates to how they respond to positively or negatively framed material about studying. Participants in this study are told they will take a test and that they have the opportunity to study for the test. They were told either by studying the words it would give them the opportunity to become more familiar with the words and be successful in the test (positive frame) or if they do not study the words they will not have an opportunity to be successful in the test (negative frame). After either studying or choosing not to they took the test and were then given an attitudes survey to fill out about how they felt about tests and classes. Results will examine whether the frame of the studying message and participants’ text anxiety related to whether and how long participants studied.