Abstract
Two experiments were conducted to examine certain effects of subjects' directing activity toward critical target ideas or concepts. In the first experiment, the critical ideas were modern concepts for handling patients; the activity consisted of subjects' translating the ideas. In the second experiment, the critical ideas were psychological concepts; the activity consisted of subjects' making a summary statement of the ideas. The effects—that is, the dependent variables—were twofold: (a) subjects' claim that they had already known the ideas beforehand and (b) length of time that subjects claimed to have known the ideas. The impact of activity directed toward the idea was relatively clear in both experiments: Activity led to claiming to have known more of the critical ideas as well as to claiming to have known them for a longer time. The concept of appropriation of ideas is employed here to characterize the effects, and parallels are drawn to plagiarism of ideas and internalization of ideas.
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