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A Comparison of the Effects of Contingent Reinforcement, Nurturance and Nonreinforcement on Imitative Learning
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Jeffrey, D. Balfour; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Data clearly supported the major hypotheses concerning the superiority of contingent reinforcement over nurturance in facilitiating imitation. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Elementary School Students, Identification (Psychology), Imitation
Children's Performance and Social Preference for Positive, Negative, and Mixed Adult-Child Interactions
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Morris, Edward K.; Redd, William H. – Child Development, 1975
Descriptors: Adults, Interaction Process Analysis, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Task Persistence and Adult Assistance in the Preschool.
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Krantz, Murray; Scarth, Linda – Child Development, 1979
Adult assistance procedures were experimentally compared for their effects upon the preschool child's tendency to persist in self-selected manipulative tasks in a free-play setting. (JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Interaction Process Analysis, Persistence, Preschool Children
The Child's Behavioral Pattern as a Determinant of Maternal Punitiveness.
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Mulhern, Raymond K., Jr.; Passman, Richard H. – Child Development, 1979
Acting on the premise that she was teaching her son a task, each of 30 mothers selected consequences for her child's errors. In actuality, feedback to the mother regarding her son's performance was experimentally manipulated. Results showed that differential conditioning of both high and low maternal punitiveness could be achieved by using the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Conditioning, Early Childhood Education, Feedback