Some effects of "suspicious" versus 'trusting" training schedules.

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The structure of child training was translated into the paradigm of learning in a human engineering situation. The parent is conceived as having a role for the trainee (the child) to learn and employs a schedule of reinforcement. The "suspicious" training schedule involved the trainer always assuming an incorrect response has been given, and uses punitive action (electric shock); "trusting" schedule assumes a correct response, reward being a green light to proceed. Ss were college students; the task involved deciding which of 2 statements reflected greater psychopathology. S had the choice of revealing his selection or not. The hypothesis was that the S exposed to the "suspicious" routine would be more inclined to bring his response to the attention of the evaluater to correct the impression of being wrong, and to more readily learn to adopt trainers' frame of reference. In general, the results support the hypotheses. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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