Awareness, Social Deprivation and Verbal Operant Conditioning for Adults

1970 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 893-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Miller ◽  
Randolph Hood
Keyword(s):  
Factorial Design ◽  
Operant Conditioning ◽  
Social Deprivation ◽  
Sentence Construction ◽  
Verbal Operant

In a 2 × 2 × 5 factorial design the effects of social deprivation and reinforcement upon Taffel sentence construction were studied for 40 adults. Only reinforced Ss conditioned, and of them both aware and unaware Ss conditioned. Social deprivation did not affect conditioning or awareness.

Relationships of Awareness to Verbal Learning Efficiency and Meaning Change

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 875-883 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. William Miller
Keyword(s):  
Classical Conditioning ◽  
Factorial Design ◽  
Operant Conditioning ◽  
Verbal Learning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Response Frequency ◽  
Learning Efficiency ◽  
Meaning Change ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Verbal Operant

The general relationship of awareness to learning efficiency was investigated in a 2 × 2 factorial design with 20 Ss in each of four groups. Classical conditioning of meaning and verbal operant conditioning procedures were studied under two sets of instructions: one stated vague experimental purposes and the other, exact purposes. Ss' awareness of experimental procedures and purposes was measured Results indicated that with both classical and operant conditioning change in meaning occurred without awareness by Ss. A classical conditioning explanation of change in meaning was supported, but an operant conditioning explanation of change in terms of response frequency was not strengthened.

Awareness, Verbal Conditioning and Meaning Conditioning

1967 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 681-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam W. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Factorial Design ◽  
Operant Conditioning ◽  
Verbal Conditioning ◽  
Empirical Relationships ◽  
Verbal Responses ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Verbal Operant ◽  
Two Independent Variables

Empirical relationships basic to two controversial hypotheses concerning the relationship of awareness to verbal operant conditioning and conditioning of meaning were studied. Experimental procedures integrated the two conditioning processes, systematically varied verbal reinforcements for Ss' verbal responses, measured awareness by questionnaire, and measured rated meaning of nonsense syllables, which had been associated with meaningful words. 15 Ss were assigned to each of six experimental groups in a 2 × 3 factorial design. The two independent variables involved variations in reinforcement of (a) word responses and (b) awareness statements. Results supported four hypotheses: (1) Conditioning of meaning and verbal operant conditioning can occur together. (2) Awareness statements are operantly conditionable. (3) Verbal reinforcements can be arranged to produce either covariation of awareness statements and verbal conditioning or lack of covariation. (4) Awareness statements during conditioning relate significantly to awareness measured by postconditioning questionnaire. Also, questionnaire awareness is unrelated to conditioning of meaning.

Verbal operant conditioning of hospitalized psychiatric patients.

1969 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Drennen ◽  
William Gallman ◽  
Gene Sausser
Keyword(s):  
Operant Conditioning ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Verbal Operant

Verbal Operant Conditioning of Severely Antisocial Adolescents by Delinquent and Normal Es

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 745-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy W. Persons
Keyword(s):  
Operant Conditioning ◽  
Verbal Conditioning ◽  
Verbal Reinforcement ◽  
Verbal Operant

An inmate peer and an adult professional were used as Es in a verbal conditioning study with sociopaths. The sociopaths were conditioned as a function of verbal reinforcement. They conditioned more readily to guilty content than to hostile content. The sociopaths emitted significantly more hostile verbs when reinforced by the adult E than when reinforced by the inmate E.

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