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Peer reviewedGholson, Barry; O'Connor, Joseph – Child Development, 1975
Groups of second grade and college students were presented with a series of three-alternative, four-dimensional discrimination problems that contained probes for the subject's hypothesis. Subjects received either complete feedback or partial feedback. In the latter condition, when subjects were told their response choice was incorrect the correct…
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Feedback, Higher Education
Peer reviewedGholson, Barry – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1994
Considers the debate about learning as based on conditioning or cognitive processes. Explores historical episodes in this debate in which issues were resolved first in favor of conditioning theory and then increasingly in favor of cognitive processes. Interprets the study by Coldren and Colombo reported in this monograph (PS 522 654) as a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conditioning, Dimensional Preference, Infants
Peer reviewedGholson, Barry; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
In the course of two experiments, groups of kindergarten, second, fourth, sixth grade and college students received several discrimination problems to investigate hypothesis testing behavior. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Developmental Psychology
