Relationships of Extraversion-Introversion to Verbal Operant Conditioning for Aware and Unaware Subjects

Abstract

Extraversion-Introversion was compared to verbal operant conditioning, separately for Ss aware of the response-reinforcement contingency and for Ss unaware. It was proposed that Eysenck's hypothesis which states that introverts condition more effectively than extraverts would hold only for unaware Ss. Both aware and unaware Ss conditioned. But there were no significant relationships between extraversion-introversion and conditioning, either for all Ss or for aware Ss or for unaware Ss. The hypothesis was not supported.