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Digital Document
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Florida Atlantic University
Description
The goal of this study was to exaoine the relatively reinforcing
properties of predictability (or the absence of it)
in human subjects' choice for control and no control presentations
of a mildly aversive stimulus (Time Out from positive
reinforcement). Subjects, overall, preferred predictability
with control significantly more than predictability without
control (Experinent I). There was less of a difference in
their preference for control in the absence of predictability
(Experiment II). Results demonstrated greater preference for
control among males than females and female variability was
large. The "motive to avoid success" on the part of female
subjects was purported to explain the variability and lesser
preference for the control conditions.
properties of predictability (or the absence of it)
in human subjects' choice for control and no control presentations
of a mildly aversive stimulus (Time Out from positive
reinforcement). Subjects, overall, preferred predictability
with control significantly more than predictability without
control (Experinent I). There was less of a difference in
their preference for control in the absence of predictability
(Experiment II). Results demonstrated greater preference for
control among males than females and female variability was
large. The "motive to avoid success" on the part of female
subjects was purported to explain the variability and lesser
preference for the control conditions.
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