Psychology ETDs

Publication Date

7-17-1972

Abstract

Six experiments were conducted in order to provide support for an extension of attention processes to stimulus relationships at the empirical and theoretical levels. These experiments, which employed a total of 231 introductory psychology students, were conducted in the context of a conditional discrimination labelled symbolic matching. In that discrimination, the correct choice or comparison stimulus depended upon the value of a discriminative or standard stimulus present on each trial. The first three experiments systematically replicated basic attentional effects in the conditional discrimination in order to provide an empirical base for evaluating the results of the second three experiments, which explored attention to stimulus relationships.

Degree Name

Psychology

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

Psychology

First Committee Member (Chair)

Douglas Peter Ferraro

Second Committee Member

Frank Anderson Logan

Third Committee Member

Henry Carleton Ellis

Fourth Committee Member

Peder Jack Johnson

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

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Psychology Commons

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