Anna State Hospital.
J Appl Behav Anal. 1970 Winter;3(4):235-40. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1970.3-235.
The effects of informational feedback on a socially undesirable behavior were studied. The feedback was a mild vibrotactile stimulus and the response was slouching. When subjects slouched, a behavioral engineering apparatus provided vibrotactile stimulation to the shoulder. All subjects slouched less when stimulation was provided. A procedural control revealed that slouching will decrease because of the informational aspect of the stimulus consequence and not because of its aversive properties. When the subjects were instructed to slouch, the effects of feedback were reversed: feedback increased, rather than decreased, slouching. These results indicate that the effect of feedback for a response depends on the subject's motivation to perform that response. It is suggested that informational feedback could be used more widely as a therapeutic procedure to modify human behaviors, but only those behaviors that a patient is strongly motivated to change.
研究了信息反馈对一种社会不期望行为的影响。反馈是一种轻微的振动刺激，而反应是懒散。当被试懒散时，行为工程仪器会对肩部提供振动刺激。当提供刺激时，所有被试的懒散程度都降低了。一个程序控制表明，懒散会减少，是因为刺激后果的信息方面，而不是因为它的厌恶特性。当被试被指示懒散时，反馈的效果发生了逆转：反馈增加了，而不是减少了懒散。这些结果表明，反馈对反应的影响取决于主体执行该反应的动机。这表明，信息反馈可以更广泛地作为一种治疗程序来改变人类行为，但只能针对那些患者强烈希望改变的行为。
