Discriminative and Reinforcing Functions of Four Verbal Stimuli
- 1 April 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 24 (2) , 555-562
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1969.24.2.555
Abstract
Only those Ss who were both aware of the response-reinforcement contingency and for whom the appropriate contingent stimuli were, in fact, reinforcing conditioned. The Right-blank group was significantly slower in learning than the Correct-blank, Wrong-blank, and Incorrect-blank groups, indicating the ambiguity of “Right” as a discriminative stimulus. A comparable number of Ss in each group reported the contingent stimuli to be reinforcing, thus showing the necessity of awareness to conditioning.Keywords
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