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Heal, Nicole A.; Hanley, Gregory P. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2007
Preschool teachers rely on several strategies for motivating children to participate in learning activities. In the current study, we evaluated the effectiveness of and preference for three teaching contexts in which embedded, sequential, or no programmed reinforcement was arranged. The embedded context included highly preferred teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Context Effect
Zlomke, Kimberly R.; Dixon, Mark R. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2006
The present experiment investigated the impact of contextually trained discriminations on gambling behavior. Nine recreational slot-machine players were initially exposed to concurrently available computerized slot machines that were each programmed on random-ratio schedules of reinforcement and differed only in color. All participants distributed…
Descriptors: Cues, Context Effect, Learning Processes, Experiments