PEP | Article - Principles of Conditioning in Human Goal Behavior: By Anthony J. Mitrano. Psychological Monographs, 1939, Vol. 51, No. 4. Columbus, Ohio: The American Psychological Association, Inc. 64 pp.

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Abstract

This study, a Yale doctoral dissertation in psychology, represents an interesting attempt to determine whether certain of Pavlov's principles of conditioning are also operative in the 'goal behavior' of human beings. By 'goal behavior' is meant conduct in a situation in which the individual has relatively few behavior restrictions and in which he can control his behavior in reference to a goal set up by the experimenter. This type of behavior is contrasted with the 'passive' behavior of human and animal subjects in the

PEP | Article - Principles of Conditioning in Human Goal Behavior: By Anthony J. Mitrano. Psychological Monographs, 1939, Vol. 51, No. 4. Columbus, Ohio: The American Psychological Association, Inc. 64 pp. - Greenacre, Phyllis