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Peer reviewedRedd, William H.; Winston, Andrew S. – Child Development, 1974
The relative effectiveness of positive and negative adult preference statements in controlling children's behavior was studied. Results indicated that the adult's antecedent negative comments exerted greater control over the children than did the positive comments. (ST)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Discrimination Learning, Feedback, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedSmith, Roger A.; Filler, John W., Jr. – Child Development, 1975
This study is an initial investigation of the effects of a fading procedure upon acquisition and transfer of discrimination learning with children younger than 36 months of age. (CS)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Infants, Preschool Children, Visual Perception
Peer reviewedVincent-Smith, Lisbeth; And Others – Child Development, 1974
The acquisition of language-receptive processes in preschool children was studied using a word association task. (ST)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Discrimination Learning, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedMasters, John C.; Mokros, Janice R. – Child Development, 1973
It was concluded from the date that satiation plays a determining role in the continued utilization of an acquired response while distraction is a primary determinant of acquisition rate. (Authors)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Motivation, Preschool Children, Reinforcement
Peer reviewedFisher, Celia B.; Braine, Lila G. – Child Development, 1981
Found that preschool children can form abstract concepts of left and right which are not bound to the specific training context: children were able to generalize to new figures and to new spatial locations. The nature of the preschool child's left-right judgments is discussed. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Generalization, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedKoenigsberg, Riki Sharfman – Child Development, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Character Recognition, Discrimination Learning, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedBerman, Phyllis W. – Child Development, 1973
If learning is viewed in terms of the tendency to approach a stimulus that has been rewarded and to avoid a stimulus that has not been rewarded, then it must be concluded that the subjects in this study did not learn. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Preschool Children, Responses
Peer reviewedDaehler, Marvin W.; And Others – Child Development, 1976
This study examined the equivalence of objects and pictures of objects in transfer discrimination of 72 children (ages 24-45 months). (BRT)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Infants, Perception, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedRollins, Howard; Castle, Kathryn – Child Development, 1973
These results provide a more precise attentional interpretation of both preference and pretraining effects. (Authors)
Descriptors: Attention, Cues, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedCampione, Joseph C. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Perception, Preschool Children, Redundancy
Peer reviewedWoody-Ramsey, Janet; Miller, Patricia H. – Child Development, 1988
Studies the allocation of attention of 100 four- and five-year-olds on a selective attention task. Results suggest that preschoolers are capable of using selective strategies when the task is made meaningful by the inclusion of a familiar script that provides supportive cognitive context. (RJC)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Learning Strategies, Memory, Metacognition
Peer reviewedDaehler, Marvin W.; Bukatko, Danuta – Child Development, 1974
Discrimination learning studied in 3-year-olds, indicated that children over 30 months of age did better than younger children, and girls learned faster than boys after the first problem. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Learning, Perceptual Development
Peer reviewedLevy, Jeffrey C. – Child Development, 1975
This study tested the hypothesized relationship between overt sensorimotor ordering experiences and relational responding in preschool children. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Sequential Learning
Peer reviewedLoughlin, Kathleen A.; Daehler, Marvin W. – Child Development, 1973
Descriptors: Cues, Discrimination Learning, Memory, Perception
Peer reviewedMcGurk, Harry – Child Development, 1972
Results indicate that for children in this study's age range orientation is a less salient discriminative cue than either size or color. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Orientation, Preschool Children
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