Relationships of Extraversion-Introversion to Verbal Operant Conditioning for Aware and Unaware Subjects

1972 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 848-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Miller ◽  
Florence Minten

Extraversion-Introversion was compared to verbal operant conditioning, separately for Ss aware of the response-reinforcement contingency and for Ss unaware. It was proposed that Eysenck's hypothesis which states that introverts condition more effectively than extraverts would hold only for unaware Ss. Both aware and unaware Ss conditioned. But there were no significant relationships between extraversion-introversion and conditioning, either for all Ss or for aware Ss or for unaware Ss. The hypothesis was not supported.

1969 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Drennen ◽  
William Gallman ◽  
Gene Sausser

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 875-883 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. William Miller

The general relationship of awareness to learning efficiency was investigated in a 2 × 2 factorial design with 20 Ss in each of four groups. Classical conditioning of meaning and verbal operant conditioning procedures were studied under two sets of instructions: one stated vague experimental purposes and the other, exact purposes. Ss' awareness of experimental procedures and purposes was measured Results indicated that with both classical and operant conditioning change in meaning occurred without awareness by Ss. A classical conditioning explanation of change in meaning was supported, but an operant conditioning explanation of change in terms of response frequency was not strengthened.


1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 745-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy W. Persons

An inmate peer and an adult professional were used as Es in a verbal conditioning study with sociopaths. The sociopaths were conditioned as a function of verbal reinforcement. They conditioned more readily to guilty content than to hostile content. The sociopaths emitted significantly more hostile verbs when reinforced by the adult E than when reinforced by the inmate E.


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