Deprivation and reward stimuli as compound stimuli |
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Authors: | Elizabeth D Capaldi Frank Friedman |
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Affiliation: | Purdue University USA |
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Abstract: | In Experiment 1 the experimental group was tested with a deprivation level and a reward magnitude which it had experienced previously but which it had not experienced in combination. This group was inferior in test performance to a group which had experienced the test deprivation-reward combination prior to test. These results were interpreted as indicating that deprivation stimuli and reward stimuli form a compound stimulus and training on the elements of the compound produces performance inferior to training directly on the compound. In Experiment 2, the decrement associated with two different shifts in deprivation and reward did not differ despite the different size change of total incentive involved in the two shifts. The results were interpreted as indicating that the deprivation-reward stimulus is not produced by a single underlying incentive mechanism. |
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Keywords: | Reprints can be obtained from Elizabeth D. Capaldi Department of Psychological Sciences Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana 47907. |
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