Does Type of College Affect Students' Task Performance/

Abstract

People possess social characteristics that determine the type of nteractive contexts they fabricate with others. A process of social orientation preceded this fabrication. The orientation process develops parame ters for social interaction that reflect the status each in teracting person assigns to the other. As a result of the evaluation strategy, each person develops for the other a set of expectations defined by the assigned status of the social characteristic. For example, as a social characteristic, sex has two states: male and female. It is a general observation that men have more opportunities for social interaction than women because it is assumed that men will contribute more to social interaction. Consequently, men are as signed higher status in social interaction, and will, there fore, be expected to be the initiators of social interaction rather than women (2).