Abstract
240 male college students worked on a stylus maze and the result of reaching its terminal region would have been an electric shock. It was arranged that some Ss appeared to be making progress toward the shock with each trial, others were making progress away from it and still others were remaining stationary with respect to it. On completing 12 trials, S was asked to estimate how much longer or shorter the maze task seemed than a paper-and-pencil task of equal actual duration. The experiment was repeated for 15-, 30-, 45-, and 60-min. periods. For all times tested, psychological time was longer for the zero-progress conditions than for forward- or backward-progress. Results are attributed to lack of information input which would have allowed S to structure the maze task.
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