Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / This study examines some relationship which appear to exist between the learning of hostile material and the drive state of hostility. Hostility is defined as a universally existent drive state capable of being elicited by an appropriate stimulus. No distinction is made as to whether its origin is innate or learned.
Williams has suggested that learning rate is negatively related to stimuli connoting hostility; an extension of this study by Wolf indicated that such learning is a negative function of hostile drive strength in interaction with stimuli connoting hostility. However, other studies indicate that there are conditions under which learning could be positively related to hostile stimuli. Maccoby, Levin, and Selya, for example, showed a positive relationship between hostile drive and the recall of hostile material. The purpose of the present study is to examine the circumstances for such diverse findings and expectations and to attempt differential prediction as a consequence of such an analysis. [TRUNCATED]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/23608 |
| Date | January 1956 |
| Creators | Gofstein, Arnold Gordon |
| Publisher | Boston University |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | Based on investigation of the BU Libraries' staff, this work is free of known copyright restrictions. |
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