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Peer reviewedDickerson, Donald J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1970
Three groups of severely retarded and three groups of mildly retarded individuals responded to a series of five 10-trial oddity problems under nonreward conditions. Results suggest that oddity is a stimulus characteristic to which an approach response is made, independent of its concurrent association with reward, and that stimulus value of oddity…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation, Responses
Dickerson, Donald J. – Child Develop, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Chaining, Discrimination Learning, Learning Theories, Primary Education
Dickerson, Donald J.; And Others – Develop Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Performance Factors
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)
Download full textDickerson, Donald J. – 1968
Six experiments examined the problem-solving behavior of normal and mentally retarded (MR) children with a two-choice discrimination learning situation: the effects of stimulus similarity upon types of solutions utilized by MR children; the role of redundant cues in the discrimination learning of MR subjects with differing mental ages; the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Cognitive Processes, College Students
