Type of Reinforcement and Generality in Verbal Operant Conditioning

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13675012
AutoresIrving P Unikel (University of Georgia, autor correspondente), G S Strain (University of Georgia)
Ano1971
Volume28
Fascículo2
Páginas495-500
Data de publicação1971-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1971.28.2.495
OpenAlexW2091274824
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas13

Social approval and correctness reinforcement were compared, with a noncontingent reinforcement control group. Extinction trials were conducted either by the same E or by a different E. 5 Es, randomly selected from 10 available, generally were assigned 2 Ss in each of the resulting 6 conditions. The two types of reinforcement appeared to be equally effective with respect to effects on verbal operant conditioning ( p < .001), but social approval resulted in less generality than reinforcement for being correct. Ss receiving social approval exhibited significantly more rapid extinction in an altered stimulus situation with a different E ( p < .05). As social approval typically has been used, these results suggest why numerous previous verbal conditioning studies have failed to yield generalizable effects

Audiology · Cognitive psychology · Conditioning · Developmental psychology · Extinction (optical mineralogy · Generality · Operant conditioning · Psychotherapist · Reinforcement · Statistics · Stimulus control · Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder · Behavioral and Psychological Studies · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Mathematics · Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Psychology