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Farrow, Jonelle M., Lohss, William E., Farrow, Bobby J., Taub, Susan I. |
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Perceptual & Motor Skills; June 1975, Vol. 40 Issue: 3 p975-982, 8p |
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Using a modified Taffel procedure, the effect of information leakage on verbal conditioning and awareness was investigated. Fifty subjects were tested in one of two sessions, with each session separated by 1 wk. The use of I or We in sentence construction resulted in verbal reinforcement for experimental subjects; controls received no reinforcement. All subjects were debriefed and asked to refrain from discussing the experiment with others. Intersubject communication was measured in Session 2 via “cooperative” instructions which falsely indicated that a number of previous subjects were supposed to communicate information about the experiment to others. Prior intersubject communication was acknowledged by 24% (5/21) of subjects in Session 2. Although the number of subjects scored as aware did not differ significantly across sessions, conditioning results were inconsistent across sessions with successful conditioning for experimental subjects, aware and unaware combined, in Session 2 only. The possible influence of intersubject communication, a scuttlebutt effect, on the results was discussed, along with more general implications for research with humans. |
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