Conditioned acquisition and augmenting effects in causal attributions for employee performance

A social analog of a short-delay conditioning paradigm in Pavlovian learning was used to test the prediction that under certain conditions, human causal judgments would reflect acquired response properties that can be either increased (augmented) or decreased (discounted). The learning experiment was masked by describing it as a study testing a computerized employee evaluation system.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Psychology

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year

1995

Author dc:creator

• Nieri, Lia Jean

Contributors dc:contributor

• Cramer, Robert E.
• Worthley, Joanna
• McDougall, Sanders

• Performance standards
• Employees -- Rating of
• Attribution theory
• Motivation (Psychology)
• Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/985

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu:etd-project-1985