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PERSONALITY FACTORS AND RATE OF CONDITIONING
Author(s) -
FRANKS CYRIL M.
Publication year - 1957
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1957.tb00607.x
Subject(s) - psychology , extraversion and introversion , conditioning , neuroticism , conditioned reflex , personality , classical conditioning , social psychology , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , reflex , big five personality traits , statistics , neuroscience , mathematics
Sixty normal male students were conditioned, using eyeblink reflex. It was found (1) that those, students who were introverted conditioned considerably better than those who were extraverted, and (2) that there was no correlation between conditioning and neuroticism. This experiment was designed primarily to provide support for an introversion‐extraversion theory of conditioning as opposed to Spence's drive theory. implications of experiment are discussed and related to other experiments designed to show that Hull's Seventh Postulate, as used by Spence, leads to erroneous deductions. It would seem that conditioning is independent of drive level where drive is a secondary factor in conditioning situation.