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Previous studies have shown that greater response effort results in a larger percentage of short interresponse times in an operant task. An explanation, based on differential response-produced stimulus feedback resulting from different degrees of response effort, was proposed. An indirect test of this explanation showed that it was not adequate to account for the findings, and an alternate explanation, based on frustration, was proposed.
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This research was partly supported by a grant from the Small Grants Program of the Graduate School of the University of Toledo, awarded to the senior author.
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Armus, H.L., Mikesell, D.C. Response effort and interresponse time: Effect of additional, response-produced stimulus feedback. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 28, 133–134 (1990). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333985
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