A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RECALL OF OWN AND OTHERS' RESPONSES BETWEEN CONFORMERS AND NON-CONFORMERS

Abstract

This experiment was conducted to assess the recall scores of own and others' responses between conformers and non-conformers or between specialists and non-specialists. Fifty-six female college students (27 were music majors and 29 were not) were given a classical music task for 9 trials in which 6 trials were critical. After the task they were asked to write all of ownand others' responses during the task. Nonconformers recalled own and others' responses much more than conformers. And specialists recalled them much more than non-specialists. These results were discussed from the view point of tension reduction theory.