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| Infants | 1 |
| Operant Conditioning | 1 |
| Pattern Recognition | 1 |
| Social Reinforcement | 1 |
| Visual Discrimination | 1 |
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| Day, R. H. | 1 |
| McKenzie, Beryl | 1 |
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Peer reviewedMcKenzie, Beryl; Day, R. H. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1971
An operant conditioning technique was used to study visual discrimination of simple patterns by infants aged 6-12 weeks. The appropriate direction of head turning to the patterns was developed and maintained by social reinforcement. Results showed that visual discriminative control of the direction of head turning can be achieved. (WY)
Descriptors: Infants, Operant Conditioning, Pattern Recognition, Social Reinforcement
