The effect of aversive consequences upon persistent behavior

Autor: Michael Jay Weiner, Anthony M. Mander
Rok vydání: 1977
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Zdroj: Motivation and Emotion. 1:367-376
ISSN: 1573-6644
0146-7239
DOI: 10.1007/bf00992541
Popis: It was hypothesized that if a behavior is freely engaged in with the expectancy that an aversive consequence will follow, the intrinsic motivation to perform that behavior will increase when the aversive consequence is no longer present. Subjects either worked on a list of anagrams while receiving electric shock on a VR schedule, while being threatened by electric shock, or in the absence of shock. The experimenter then left the subject alone for 10 minutes with a new list of anagrams. Subjects in the shock condition solved more anagrams on the posttest than subjects in the threat-of-shock and noshock conditions. Subjects in both the shock condition and the threat-of-shock condition reported that they spent more of their free time on the anagrams than subjects in the no-shock condition.
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