An explanation of humour by the principles of the associative S-R theory of reinforcement

Pleasure experienced in humour is not simply reinforcement due to performing a reaction followed by drive reduction. Gratification in humour is, primarily, in not performing a reaction that is not followed by reinforcement. At the operational level, humour is a close contact of two distinct, interfering reactions (humour as intervening variable). Deductive coverage of this empirical law by a broader theory is achieved by subsuming the contiguity of two reactions into a form of dissipation of reactive inhibition. This is also the main hypothesis of this work: humour is gratification caused by sudden dissipation of reactive inhibition (humour as hypothetical construct

The attitudes of students of psychology in grading knowledge and creativity

Starting from Gilford’s differentiation of thinking into convergent and divergent, research was carried out into the attitudes of the students of psychology towards quality and the objectivity of professor’s gradings, representation of certain elements of grading, as well as the ways of forming the final grade on an exa

Application of behavioral theory in music

This paper presents an explanation of some laws of perception with regard to S-R principles of learning psychology. The possibility of connecting two great schools in the science of psychology − behaviorism and gestalt psychology – which are often presented as opposite

The attitudes of students of psychology in grading knowledge and creativity

Starting from Gilford’s differentiation of thinking into convergent and divergent, research was carried out into the attitudes of the students of psychology towards quality and the objectivity of professor’s gradings, representation of certain elements of grading, as well as the ways of forming the final grade on an exa