Two classes of students (N = 68) enrolled in Introductory Psychology were employed in a before-and-after design in which the students wrote definitions of 10 psychological terms and 2 control terms. The amount of agreement in the definitions, as measured by the Intensional Agreement Index, was no greater during the last week of the course than during the first week.
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