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Peer reviewedBerman, Phyllis W. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
The age effect in this study was such that younger children required proportionately more experience with reward than nonreward before they were able to improve their performance on reward problems over six sessions. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedRowe, Edward J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Performance was consistently higher for pictures than for words, and this difference was unaffected by age, response mode, or presentation paradigm. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Pictorial Stimuli
Dickerson, Donald J.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Results suggest that kindergarten children extinguish mediating responses faster than instrumental choice responses while the reverse probably holds with second graders. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Extinction (Psychology)
Peer reviewedSpear, Paul S.; Spear, Sara Allen – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Main effect of reinforcement for mean response latency indicated that subjects took longer to respond under disapproval than under approval or silence. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedTighe, Thomas J.; Tighe, Louise S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Presolution reversal prevented or significantly retarded learning in kindergarten and first-grade children but did not hinder learning in fifth-grade children. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Cues, Data Analysis
PDF pending restorationO'Malley, John J. – 1972
Review of reversal learning data obtained from Ss of various developmental phases suggested that overtraining increases perseveration in pre-school children, and decrease perseveration in older (e.g., 1st grade) children. The present experiment tested this apparent trend. Children of two age groups (X = 4 yrs., 4 mos., vs. X = 6 yrs., 5 mos.)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Criterion Referenced Tests, Data Analysis
