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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 reviewedBerman, Phyllis W.; Cunningham, Joseph G. – Developmental Psychology, 1977
The effect of shape of frame on orientation discriminations was investigated for 56 preschool children. (JMB)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Berman, Phyllis W.; And Others – Develop Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes
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
Download full textBerman, Phyllis W. – 1970
The two experiments investigated stimulus novelty which may affect reward and nonreward in a discrimination learning situation at different ages. The first experiment compared two types of "trial one" stimulus procedures on error tendencies following reward and nonreward. The two procedures differed with respect to novelty effects. One group was…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Error Patterns, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedBerman, Phyllis W. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Motivation
