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KNOWLEDGE OF PERFORMANCE AS AN INCENTIVE IN REPETITIVE, MONOTONOUS TASKS.

This experiment tried to isolate the purely motivational effect of knowledge of performance from its informational and rewarding aspects. The subjects (Ss) worked an hour a day, for 24 days, punching random digits into a teletype tape. They were told they were programming a computer and efforts were...

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Published in:Journal of Applied Psychology Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 263 - 268
Main Author: Chapanis, Alphonse
Format: Article
Published: American Psychological Association Aug64
Subjects:
Teletype
Computer programming
College students
Knowledge management
Data transmission systems
Algorithms
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