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STIMULUS‐RESPONSE THEORY AND EXPECTANCY
Author(s) -
TREISMAN MICHEL
Publication year - 1960
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.2044-8295.1960.tb00724.x
Subject(s) - expectancy theory , psychology , reinforcement , cognitive psychology , stimulus (psychology) , extinction (optical mineralogy) , social psychology , developmental psychology , paleontology , biology
In the debate between ‘expectancy’ and ‘S‐R’ theory the latter has appeared to be objective and precise and the former vague. Since fairly detailed models have now been put forward for expectancy theory, the adequacy of ‘S‐R’ answers to ‘expectancy’ questions deserves re‐examination. These answers are found to depend mainly on the employment of ‘secondary reinforcement’ and the ‘fractional anticipatory goal response’. The explanations of such problems as latent extinction, reasoning and drive discrimination, which these afford, are shown to be fallacious.