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Perseveration and Personality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Kenneth H. Rogers
Kenneth H. Rogers*
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University of Toronto
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Commencing with Lankes's well-known study, “Perseveration”, in 1914, a number of commendable experimental investigations (cf. Jones, Bernstein, Pinard, etc.) have contributed to the demonstration of the existence of a general functional “factor”, common to all cognitive activity at least, to which the name “perseveration” has been applied. The main reason for thus designating the factor seems to have been that it manifests itself under conditions where the influence of one mental operation persists and interferes with efficiency in a totally different task. In several studies an attempt has been made to relate this factor as a function making for individual differences to differences in personality features as judged by the observation of behaviour.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 81 , Issue 332 , January 1935 , pp. 145 - 150
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1935 

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