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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Publicado en:Journal of Applied Psychology Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 263 - 268
Autor principal: Chapanis, Alphonse
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Psychological Association Aug64
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