How Classical Conditioning Theory Can Damage or Improve University Students' Attitude towards Inferential Statistics

Abstract

A quasi experiment study embedded with phenomenology design was conducted with a sample of 52 master students and 42 university teachers. Among the objectives of the study was to examine the applicability and link between classical conditioning and university students' attitudes towards inferential statistics. A modified Students' Attitudes Towards Statistics -36 (SATS-36) was used to collect data as pretest and posttest together with a teacher made test and an interview guide.