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Peer reviewedMaier, Steven F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1977
In his comment, Black (AA 526 155) argued that Maier and Seligman (EJ 138 911) incorrectly interpreted competing motor response explanations of the learned helplessness effect. Here, it is argued that no article that has proposed a competing motor response explanation of the learned helplessness effect has alluded to a mechanism similar to the one…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Critical Thinking, Experimental Psychology, Hypothesis Testing
Peer reviewedMaier, Steven F.; Williams, Jon L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 1977
These experiments are addressed specifically to the question of whether transituational transfer of immunizing and therapeutic effects will occur when these procedures involve responses and settings which are very different from those used in final testing. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Conditioning, Experimental Psychology, Experiments
