“The Influence of Work on Behavior”, 1948 (; backlinks):
With the assumption that response-produced effects can serve both as drive, or motivating stimulation, and as cue stimulation, 4 categories of experimentation in the literature have been unified.
The areas of experimentation included are: (1) studies of “the law of least effort”, (2) studies varying effort-per-unit-of-time in conditioning and learning, (3) studies on avoidance of repetition of responses, and (4) studies of the role of kinesthesis in the control of behavior.
In the light of theoretical considerations, lines of future research are suggested to fill some of the gaps in the formulation. (97-item bibliography.)
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