Justification of Effort Effect for Mental and Physical Tasks
Presentation Type
Event
Full Name of Faculty Mentor
Matthew Murphy
Major
Psychology
Presentation Abstract
Effort of justification studies have shown people would value the outcome of a difficult physical task more than an easy physical task when given the same reinforcement. Effort of justification studies have not often been done with mental tasks. We tested whether Justification of Effort would apply to cognitively difficult and easy tasks by giving participants hard and easy word searches. The participant was then given a colored reward token with a positive picture and phrase, such as a cartoon frog with the phrase 'good job' on it. We compared preferences for these tokens with preference for similar tokens after difficult and easy manual tasks. Results and implications will be discussed.
Course
psyc 399
Location
Brittain Hall, Room 101
Start Date
16-4-2019 7:00 PM
End Date
16-4-2019 7:20 PM
Disciplines
Psychology
Recommended Citation
Worley, Jarrod, "Justification of Effort Effect for Mental and Physical Tasks" (2019). Undergraduate Research Competition. 64.
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/ugrc/2019/oral/64
Justification of Effort Effect for Mental and Physical Tasks
Brittain Hall, Room 101
Effort of justification studies have shown people would value the outcome of a difficult physical task more than an easy physical task when given the same reinforcement. Effort of justification studies have not often been done with mental tasks. We tested whether Justification of Effort would apply to cognitively difficult and easy tasks by giving participants hard and easy word searches. The participant was then given a colored reward token with a positive picture and phrase, such as a cartoon frog with the phrase 'good job' on it. We compared preferences for these tokens with preference for similar tokens after difficult and easy manual tasks. Results and implications will be discussed.