TY - JOUR
AU - Ayllon, Teodoro
AB - Published as a separate and in The Journal of Psychology, 1956, 42, 137-141. PERCEPTION AND MONETARY REINFORCEMENT: I. THE EFFECTS OF REWARDS IN THE TACTUAL MODALITY* The Menninget Foundation and Larned Stafe Hospital ROBERT SOMMER AND TEODORO AYLLON‘ A. INTRODUCTION Need-perception studies can be classified on the basis of the type of rein- forcing agent used, whether positive or negative. Some experimenters (2, 7, 9) have tested the effects of rewards versus punishments. Others (I, 8) have employed punishments against a neutral ground. The present study hopes to examine the effects of a reward when paired with a neutral back- ground. That is, one aspect of an equivocal stimulus configuration will be associated with a reward while the second aspect will be neutral. Both Murphy (4) in his theory of autism and Tolman (10) in his theory of emphasis would predict that the rewarded aspect would tend to become dom- inant over the non-rewarded aspect. Some investigators (3, 6), using monetary rewards with human Ss, have found that S’s experience of receiving the money was not cognized as actually rewarding. Many became insulted by the coins, some disregarded them, while others refused to believe they were actually going to 
TI - Perception and Monetary Reinforcement: I. the Effects of Rewards in the Tactual Modality
JF - The Journal of Psychology
DO - 10.1080/00223980.1956.9713029
DA - 1956-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/perception-and-monetary-reinforcement-i-the-effects-of-rewards-in-the-2wbvKwSiSc
SP - 137
EP - 141
VL - 42
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -