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Peer reviewedMcGraw, Kenneth O.; McCullers, John C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
To determine whether the distraction effect associated with material rewards in discrimination learning can account for the superior performance of reward groups in probability learning, the performance of 144 school children (preschool, second, and fifth grades) on a two-choice successive discrimination task was compared under three reinforcement…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Motivation
