Doctoral Dissertations
Date of Award
3-1961
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Major
Psychology
Major Professor
W. O. Jenkins
Committee Members
Gerald R. Pascal, Virgil E. Long, Clifford R. Swensen, Ronald Fraser
Abstract
Introduction: The ensuing pages report an attempt to evaluate the effects of certain systematic variations in a stimulus situation designed to condition verbal habits in human subjects. More specifically, the studies focus upon the effects of changes in the quality of the reinforcing stimulus in relation to differing reinforcement schedules.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Robert E., "Extinction Following Qualitative Change in the Reinforcing Stimulus. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 1961.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3048