The Effect of Punishment on Learning

We want to find out just what effect different people have on each other as teachers and learners. In this situation, the experimenter told the person playing the role of stu nto sit in a chair. He strapped down the student's arms and attached an electrode to his wrist. The electrode, the student was told, was connected to a shock generator. Then the experimenter explained, the teacher will read a list of word pairs to you,. You are to try to remember each pair for the next time throughthe teacher will read only the first word or the first half of the word pair.