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TEMPORAL EFFECTS ON RESPONSE DECREMENT AND STIMULUS SATIATION IN EXPLORATION
Author(s) -
HUTT CORINNE
Publication year - 1967
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.2044-8295.1967.tb01093.x
Subject(s) - psychology , stimulus (psychology) , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , audiology , medicine
Some workers have shown the temporal course of exploration to be decremented with time, while others have shown it to be maintained at a constant level from day to day. It has been argued that different behaviours are involved in the two cases and that the latter effect is a function of the experimental conditions. Experiments with nursery‐school children substantiated this argument. A further experiment sought to establish the most appropriate theoretical construct to account for the decrement in exploration by manipulation of the temporal variable. It was found that two decremental processes were manifest: one due to response inhibition and the other to stimulus satiation. The former was seen to be primarily affected by the complexity of the novel stimulus rather than by temporal factors; the latter by both.