Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1980

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

The goal of this study was to exaoine the relatively reinforcing properties of predictability (or the absence of it) in human subjects' choice for control and no control presentations of a mildly aversive stimulus (Time Out from positive reinforcement). Subjects, overall, preferred predictability with control significantly more than predictability without control (Experinent I). There was less of a difference in their preference for control in the absence of predictability (Experiment II). Results demonstrated greater preference for control among males than females and female variability was large. The "motive to avoid success" on the part of female subjects was purported to explain the variability and lesser preference for the control conditions.

Extent

82 p.

Comments

FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1980.|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Identifier

FADT14037

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