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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
Clunies-Ross, G. G. – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1972
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedHouse, Betty J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1979
Two groups of mentally retarded children (MA: 4 to 8 years) were pretrained using two different methods. It was predicted that shift performance of the two groups trained to use different strategies would resemble those of two different developmental levels. (MP)
Descriptors: Attention, Children, Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning
BERMAN, PHYLLIS W. – 1965
THE ERROR FACTORS WHICH OPERATE DURING THE DISCRIMINATION LEARNING OF NORMAL CHILDREN WERE STUDIED. THREE EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED TO COMPARE RESPONSE-SHIFT AND RESPONSE-PRESERVERATION TENDENCIES OF DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS. THE FIRST EXPERIMENT INCLUDED 4-, 6-, 8-, AND 10-YEAR-OLDS WHO WERE GIVEN REWARD AND NONREWARD PROBLEMS. THE SECOND EXPERIMENT…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Experimental Programs
Download full textRatliff, Richard G. – 1970
A series of investigations which simultaneously manipulated parameters of reinforcement and age and sex of children were conducted in order to further describe the learning process in children. In addition, an attempt was made to relate perceived parental discipline to performance in the discrimination learning tasks employed in this research. The…
Descriptors: Age, Children, Discipline, Discrimination Learning
Maloney, Michael P.; Charrette, Harriett – Percept Mot Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Attention Control, Children, Discrimination Learning, Learning Theories
Clark, Gilbert A. – 1972
The research reported here was designed to measure the abilities of school-age children to form and generalize "visual concepts" on the basis of their observation of prepared sets of art reproductions. The art reproduction sets displayed similarities based upon various visual attributes. Discrimination of the attributes common to any…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Art, Children, Classification
