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Awareness in Verbal Conditioning: Objective Assessment and Automatic Strengthening

Abstract

A Taffel-type verbal conditioning experiment was conducted in order to (a) explore the role of awareness as assessed by a newly developed objective instrument that is not open to the criticisms to which interview techniques have been subjected, and (b) determine whether exposure to different numbers of conditioning trials has an effect upon usage of the reinforced response class and awareness of contingencies. The results indicate that (a) only …

Authors

Leftwich J; Nawas MM; Siegel S

Journal

Psychological Reports, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 51–59

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

August 1969

DOI

10.2466/pr0.1969.25.1.51

ISSN

0033-2941