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[The significance of unrecognized feedback stimuli in cognitive activity]
Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deiatelnosti Imeni I P Pavlova
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
In adult emotionally excitable persons the role was studied of unrecognized reinforcement forms in the function of differentiation of time microintervals. As feedback stimuli the word "good" (positive reinforcement) and a word connected with negative emotions of the subject (negative reinforcement) were applied. Experimental confirmation was obtained of the hypothesis that unrecognized phenomena of environment can influence conscious psychic activity, the process of man learning. Unrecognized semantic stimuli can function as a reinforcing factor and in this way participate in the process of learning of cognitive activity realized at conscious level.