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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 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
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 reviewedMoran, James D., III; McCullers, John C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1979
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning
Download full textSiegel, Alexander W.; Van Cara, Flo – 1970
One hundred and eight kindergarten and elementary school children, 36 at each of three age levels (5, 7, and 9 years) participated in the experiment. All children were presented a three-part successive discrimination task; original learning, presentation of incidental stimuli, and a test of recongition and recall of the incidental material.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Incidental Learning
