Motivation in learning. II. The function of electric shock for right and wrong responses in human subjects.

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The purpose of this study was to compare punishment for right responses with that for wrong responses in human subjects as a sequel to a similar study with white rats reported elsewhere. In the present study the experiment with the punchboard maze reported by Tolman, Hall and Bretnall was repeated and extended. "As regards the function of electric shock in this situation neither the results of the California experiment nor those of the present experiment showed any significant differences between groups that were and those that were not shocked. It is the writer's opinion that this problem is bound to yield more significant results with animals than with human adults as subjects since the latter are so completely motivated in the usual laboratory situation that the addition of shock cannot produce an accelerating effect upon learning." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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