Interest Inventory Items as Reinforcing Stimuli: A Test of the A-R-D Theory.

Autor/inn/en	Staats, Arthur W.; und weitere
Institution	Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Dept. of Psychology.
Titel	Interest Inventory Items as Reinforcing Stimuli: A Test of the A-R-D Theory.
Quelle	(1970), (33 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Attitude Measures; Attitudes; Conditioning; Discrimination Learning; Emotional Response; Evaluative Thinking; Interests; Interpersonal Relationship; Learning Theories; Rating Scales; Reinforcement; Responses; Semantics; Social Bias; Stimuli; Verbal Operant Conditioning; Visual Discrimination; Visual Stimuli; Word Recognition; Strong Vocational Interest Blank + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Lernen; Lernprozess; Emotionales Verhalten; Bildungsinteresse; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Rating-Skala; Positive Verstärkung; Semantik; Anreizsystem; Worterkennung
Abstract	An experiement was conducted to test the hypothesis that interest inventory items would function as reinforcing stimuli in a visual discrimination task. When previously rated liked and disliked items from the Strong Vocational Interest Blank were differentially presented following one of two responses, subjects learned to respond to the stimulus that was followed by liked items. When indifferent items were presented following responses to one stimulus, the delivery of either liked or disliked items after responses to the other stimulus produced no systematic changes in discrimination performance. The results support the A-R-D interpretation that attitudinal stimuli (interest items) which elicit emotional responses will also serve as reinforcing stimuli when made contingent upon instrumental responses. A-R-D is a label chosn to designate the attitudinal, reinforcing, and discriminative functions of stimuli. (Author/MF)
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