A music learning experiment was performed, illustrating the possibility of isolating certain components of performance (labeled Skill and Motivation) by using separate measurement situations for each. Straightforward application of Hullian theory—which considers that component factors of performance interact prior to overt behavior and are not thus separable in measurement situations—to the experiment's data led to a self-contradiction. It was shown, further, that Hull's theory could be considered consistent with the present data only when certain assumptions of dubious plausibility were made.
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LA - en SN - 0031-5125 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1965.20.1.239 ID - ref1 ER -