Learning without awareness and extinction following awareness as a function of reinforcement.

Hirsch, Jerry

doi:10.1037/h0042619

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“…A significant between-individual means effect, F (22,66) = 1.69, p < .05, confirmed earlier findings (Hirsch, 1957;Philbrick & Postman, 1955;Sassenrath, 1959Sassenrath, , 1962 concerning the reliability of the performance measure used.…”

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confidence: 87%

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Conscious mediating processes in a problem-solving task.

Stein¹

1966

Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Investigated the role of conscious mediating processes in the solution of a word-number association task. Undergraduate nursing students were reinforced for number responses which were 1 less than the number of letters in the stimulus words. Ss' awareness of the contingency of reinforcement was assessed by means of a probability analysis. At the beginning of the experiment, Ss in all groups consciously mediated a significant number of their responses with hypotheses relating the numbers to the word lengths. Control group Ss were extinguished in their use of these hypotheses. Ss in the successful group used them increasingly until just prior to the criterion, and accurately verbalized the reinforcement contingency upon reaching criterion. No evidence for learning without awareness was found.

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confidence: 87%

“…A number of investigators (Hirsch, 1957;Philbrick & Postman, 1955;Sassenrath, 1959Sassenrath, , 1962 have employed a Thorndike (1933) wordnumber association task to demonstrate the unconscious automatic effect of rewards in human learning. However, for reasons mentioned below, the findings of these experiments are somewhat equivocal.…”

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