Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That tests, like men, are fallible Dr. Thorndike readily admits, but they are better than guesses. His colleagues have often questioned his evidence but rarely with any success his conclusions. When Thorndike declared that "satisfiers'' (such as a reward of food) made animals remember the correct acts and thus aided their learning, and that "annoyers" retarded their learning, his contemporaries were skeptical. But many years later Thorndike confirmed his theory of the effect of rewards on learning with what he regards as his most remarkable and conclusive experiment. This was the "spread and scatter" phenomenon. Students who answered...
...spread. Then, years hence, if all goes well, Clara Howard, with arms and head freed, will have a skin that is scarred and puckered but whole. John too will be permanently scarred but this thought did not deter him from volunteering. His mother, who takes roomers, promised to reward him with $20 and a new coat. But last week she took sick and the $20 went for doctor's bills. "Aw, that's all right, mom," said John...
...advantages of Copey's way. Up on the platform, Copey must realize that fact, must sense it in the quiet appreciation which fills the room. That feeling, imparted to dozens of classes of young men at this time of year, must be gratifying. It is Charles Townsend Copeland's reward...
...same time announcement was made of similar reward for Bobby Green, left end, and Ken Booch, right tackle, both of whom made the All-New England selections of the United Press...
...Nieman Prizes" from Harvard thus might bring brief glory to a few meritorious articles. But at best, they could only reward a small number of isolated cases. They would be an incentive to authors and those whose writing is of more than passing consequence, but as far as the reporter who dashes off perhaps ten hurried news stories a day and the editor who handles scores of such stories a day, it is difficult to see how more prizes could possibly improve their efforts. Prizes, then, incline to be too remote, too earmarked for the outstanding great, rather than...