An Extension of the Reinforcement Contiguity Issue – The Effect of Retention in the Goal Box After Reinforcement

This study investigated one prediction of Guthrie's theory of learning (1936, 1952)--that retention in the goal box after reinforcement increases the likelihood of incompatible responses to the goal stimuli and, thus, decreases learning. Three measures of learning were used: number of trials to criterion, total number of correct trials in the first twenty trials, and number of subjects who met criterion of five successive correct responses within forty trials.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Education (MEd)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Year

1966

Author dc:creator

• Grey, Marilyn L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jack J. Crawford
• Eldon E. Jacobsen
• Howard Bruce Robinson

• Education
• Reinforcement (Psychology)
• Learning
• Psychology of
• Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
• Educational Methods

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/535

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-1547