Anxiety Level and the Effect of Verbal Reinforcement Combinations on a Verbal-Coding Task
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19276089 |
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| Authors | Shinkuro Iwahara (Tokyo University of Education), NORIKO TANABE (0000-0002-8240-007X, The Osaka Clinic for Vocational Guidance) |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 147-152 |
| Publication date | 1963-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japanese Psychological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-5368 • E-ISSN: 1468-5884 |
| Publisher | The Japanese Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • JP) |
| DOI | 10.4992/psycholres1954.5.147 |
| OpenAlex | W1812611712 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The purpose of this experiment was to test whether verbal learning is a function of manifest anxiety as well as verbal reinforcement combinations. Highand low-anxious groups were each divided into 3 subgroups, depending upon whether they were given both positive (“Right”) and negative (“Wrong”) reinforcements (RW), or only one of the two reinforcements (NW and RN). Only the interaction between the two variables was found to be significant, indicating that RN lead to faster learning in the high-anxious Ss than RW and NM, while the trend was opposite in the low-anxious Ss. The results were interpreted in terms of an inhibitory effect of the stressful motivation of verbal punishment (W) on learning in the high-anxious Ss
Anxiety · Audiology · Coding (social sciences) · Cognition · Developmental psychology · Nonverbal communication · Punishment (psychology) · Reinforcement · Statistics · Verbal learning · Behavioral and Psychological Studies · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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